Egypt protests enter their 16th day – in pictures

Anti-government protesters sleep in a makeshift clinic in Tahrir Square Photograph: Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images

An Egyptian anti-government protester reads the papers as he wakes up near an army tank in Cairo's Tahrir Square Photograph: Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images

An Egyptian woman looks at anti-government slogans and caricatures displayed in Tahrir Square Photograph: Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images

Egyptian soldiers watch people heading to their business on the outskirts of Tahrir Square, seen through a wrecked bus used as a barricade Photograph: Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images

Anti-government doctors read the papers at a makeshift clinic Photograph: Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images

An Egyptian official tries to calm a group of anti-government protesters demonstrating outside the Ministry of Health building in Cairo Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

Anti-government protesters gather outside parliament gates 500 metres from Tahrir Square Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images

Egyptian museum workers stage a protest outside the Supreme Council of Antiquities in the Zamalek neighbourhoood of Cairo Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP

Anti-government protesters attach a sign to the gate of the parliament building in Cairo as a soldier stands guard Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

Protesters outside the parliament building in Cairo hang a cartoon of President Hosni Mubarak. The Arabic reads: 'People need removal of the regime' Photograph: Paul Schemm/AP

Anti-government demonstrators hold a huge national flag in Tahrir Square Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images

An Egyptian anti-government demonstrator with a picture of late Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser placed on his forehead in Tahrir Square Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images

An anti-government protester gestures as he sits outside the Egyptian parliament Photograph: Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP

Protesters listen to anti-government speeches during demonstrations in Tahrir Square Photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters

Anti-government protesters hang plastic sheets to sleep under outside parliament Photograph: Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP

A young opposition supporter kisses an Egyptian flag as he is carried on his father's shoulders among the crowd in Tahrir Square Photograph: Yannis Behrakis/Reuters