Tahrir protesters start the first morning of the sit-in put forward by Islamists and supported by other political groups chanting for the Brotherhood candidate, Morsi and against Mubarak's last prime minister, Shafiq Several thousands are still gathered in Tahrir Square on Saturday following mass demonstrations staged the day before, mainly by Islamist groups and several revolutionary movements, to protest the much debatable addendum of the Constitutional Declaration. As was the case on Friday, when the flashpoint square was fully packed, protesters chanted the name of the Muslim Brotherhood's presidential candidate, Mohamed Morsi, and hit out at his contender and Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq, amid other slogans. Protesters have also been attacking the SCAF for dissolving the People's Assembly, the parliament's lower house, in accordance to a ruling by High Constitutional Court last week that a third of the lower chamber of the parliament was elected unconstitutionally. Following another mass protest, a small number of protesters started a sit-in on Tuesday after Egypt's ruling body, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), passed the addendum to the Constitutional Declaration, which gave the military council – critics say – unfettered powers at the expense of the president's. It is understood that Islamists, especially the Muslim Brotherhood, have been mobilising thousands from all across the country to rally in Tahrir, the epicentre of last year's uprising, to support Morsi and pressure the SCAF. Under the unforgiving sun, however, only a few thousand remained in Tahrir overnight. http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/45919.aspx
