Hundred of thousands take to the streets across Egypt. Tuesday evening also witnessed protests in Alexandria, Mansoura , Mahalla, Hurghada, Luxor, Assiut, Minya and Ismailia against the draft constitution and constitutional declaration. According to activists, thousands of protesters took the street in Alexandria in huge rallies.
[image: Presidential Palace] Egyptian protesters carry national flags and chant anti Muslim Brotherhood slogans during a demonstration in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012 (Photo: Reuters) Related PHOTO GALLERY: Mass anti-Morsi protest outside presidential palace<http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentMulti/59773/Multimedia.aspx> Egyptian journalists protest draft constitution<http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/0/59761/Egypt/0/Egyptian-journalists-protest-draft-constitution.aspx> Egypt's online media shows solidarity with newspaper strike<http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/0/59759/Egypt/0/Egypts-online-media-shows-solidarity-with-newspape.aspx> Activists reject choice between constitution and declaration<http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/0/59756/Egypt/0/Activists-reject-choice-between-constitution-and-d.aspx> Islamist group asks churches 'to protect Egypt' during Morsi protests<http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/0/59744/Egypt/0/Islamist-group-asks-churches-to-protect-Egypt-duri.aspx> *Ahram Online declares its full support for the strike action undertaken on Tuesday by a large number of major Egyptian newspapers and TV stations in defence of freedom of the press, freedom of expression, civil liberties and the rule of law. In view of our particular status as a web-based news outlet, however, we will maintain our updates throughout this crucial day of protest, not in contravention of the strike action, but in full solidarity with it. These decisions were consensually adopted by an all-staff meeting of Ahram Online, and in consultation with members of the board of the Press Syndicate and striking news media.* Security forces have withdrawn from the perimeter outside the presidential palace after receiving orders to go inside the palace. Some protesters cheered the Central Security Forces (CSF) units after the end of the clashes, according to some news reports. The ministry of interior already issued an official statement declaring that President Morsi left the presidential palace after finishing a couple of meetings on Tuesday. It also added that the security forces practiced self-restraint after the protesters breached the barbed wire cordons around the palace. A planned protest at the presidential palace was met with tear gas fired by security forces earlier on Tuesday evening, after protesters, chanting loudly against the constitutional declaration and the draft constitution, tried to remove the barbed wire security barriers, with others launching fireworks. The Central Security Forces responded by drumming their armour with sticks and firing sound bombs and tear gas grenades. Later, the security forces retired to around one kilometre away, with protesters chanting, "The people want to topple the regime," and "We will not leave, he will leave." According to Al-Arabiya news network's account on Twitter, ten people were injured in the clashes between protesters and police forces. Thousands of protesters had gathered in front of the presidential palace on Tuesday afternoon, chanting against the draft constitution and Constituent Assembly and holding banners saying "We reject splitting the country in two using religion," and "We reject the constitutional declaration." Rallies made up of thousands of protesters marched from the mosques of Al-Nour and Rabaa Al-Adawaiya in Abbassiya and Nasr City respectively, heading to the presidential palace a few kilometres away. Protesters chanted: "To those who wonder what the solution is, the Brotherhood has to be dissolved," and "Get out of your houses and come tell Morsi to leave." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Egypt's National Salvation Front issues 3 demands for President Morsi Ahram Online, Wednesday 5 Dec 2012 Front demands immediate reversal of President Morsi's constitutional declaration; scrapping of upcoming constitutional referendum; and formation of new Constituent Assembly After Tuesday's mass protests, Egypt's National Salvation Front has agreed on three main demands to be put before President Mohamed Morsi to be met before Friday. The National Salvation Front is a recently-formed umbrella group led by former presidential candidates Hamdeen Sabbahi and Amr Moussa, along with reform campaigner Mohamed ElBaradei The front which includes the Constitution Party, the Egyptian Popular Current, the Social Democratic Party and the Socialist Popular Alliance Party, amongst others will demand that Morsi's recent constitutional declaration be reversed; that the constitutional referendum slated for mid-December be scrapped; and that a new Constituent Assembly be drawn up to draft a constitution "more reflective" of the popular will. The current constitutional draft was written by an assembly that critics say is dominated by Islamists after repeated walkouts by non-Islamist groups, including the Coptic Church, human rights activists and workers', farmers' and journalists' representatives. Morsi issued a decree in November giving his decisions immunity from judicial oversight and protecting the Constituent Assembly from a potential court order that might have otherwise dissolved it. The decree was widely attacked by opposition groups as "dictatorial." *Hundreds of thousands took to the streets after calls by several political forces including the National Salvation Front to protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square and outside the presidential palace in the capital's Heliopolis district. * Following the mass protests, the Constitution Party, co-founded by ElBaradei, took a decision to stage a sit-in outside the palace. 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