Tahrir Square protests continue in runup to elections - in pictures

A wounded Muslim cleric leads Egyptian demonstrators as they pray at a protest camp set up overnight outside the prime minister's office in Cairo as part of ongoing demonstrations calling for an end to the military rule Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images

Egyptian soldiers stand behind a barbed wire fence while guarding the cabinet building near Tahrir Square in Cairo. Egyptian medical officials say that one demonstrator has been killed outside the building, where protesters have camped overnight to prevent the entrance of the country's newly-appointed prime minister Photograph: Bela Szandelszky/AP

An injured protester is aided during clashes with Egyptian security forces, near Tahrir Square in Cairo. Photograph: Bernat Armangue/AP

Protesters eat below a giant banner reading in Arabic, "we won't leave the martyrs' rights," in Tahrir Square in Cairo Photograph: Bernat Armangue/AP

A demonstrator sleeps under graffiti against the country's interim military rulers at a protest camp outside the prime minister's office in Cairo Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images

An injured protester during clashes with security forces Photograph: Bernat Armangue/AP

A child holds an Egyptian flag during a demonstration against the military junta at Tahrir Square in Cairo. Egyptian protesters demanding an end to army rule clashed with police firing tear gas in central Cairo on Saturday, in a flare-up that cast another shadow over a parliamentary election billed as the nation's first free vote in decades Photograph: Esam Omran Al-fetori/Reuters

A protester gets his fingers painted with the colours of the Egyptian flag, in Tahrir Square in Cairo Photograph: Bernat Armangue/AP

A protester shouts in front of the headquarters of the Egyptian cabinet in Cairo Photograph: Esam Omran Al-fetori/Reuters

Egyptians walk under electoral campaign banners in the Shubra district of Cairo ahead of a three-round parliamentary election. The elections that get underway on 28 November will be the first polls since a popular uprising ended Hosni Mubarak's 30-year-rule in February Photograph: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images