A boy carrying bread runs as riot police block a road Photograph: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/ReutersProtesters tussle with riot police in Cairo Photograph: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/ReutersWhile previous calls for protests have yielded 'meagre results', these demonstrations are 'unprecedented' in their scale, according to al-Jazeera televisionPhotograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images
Demonstrators surround a police water cannon vehicle Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty ImagesDemonstrators clash with policePhotograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty ImagesA protester holds up a placard calling on Mubarak to quitPhotograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty ImagesProtesters are confronted by riot police as they demonstrate in Cairo Photograph: Mohammed Abu Zaid/APTeargas is fired by police at demonstrators calling for an end to almost 30 years of Mubarak rule Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty ImagesA protester throws a rock at police Photograph: Khaled el Fiqi/EPAPolice retreat from protestersPhotograph: Khaled el Fiqi/EPAA man runs from a police water cannonPhotograph: APDemonstrators deface a poster of Egyptian president Hosni MubarakPhotograph: APTeargas billows in downtown CairoPhotograph: Asmaa Waguih/ReutersThousands of demonstrators crowd in central CairoPhotograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty ImagesAnti-government protesters light flares in Tahrir SquarePhotograph: Asmaa Waguih/ReutersAn anti-government protester exchanges words with a policeman in CairoPhotograph: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/ReutersAn Egyptian protester faces policemen Photograph: EPAPlainclothes police arrest Mohamed Abdul Quddus, rapporteur of the Civil Liberties Committee and member of the Press Syndicate CouncilPhotograph: Goran Tomasevic/ReutersA riot policeman fires teargas amid clashes in CairoPhotograph: Ben Curtis/APEgyptian demonstrators in CairoPhotograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty ImagesEgyptian riot police clash with anti-government activists in CairoPhotograph: Ben Curtis/AP
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