Tear gas at Egypt's presidential palace protests

Police fire tear gas at anti-Morsi protest outside the presidential palace in Heliopolis, with two more rallies on their way

A planned protest at the presidential palace was met with tear gas fired by security forces 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, thesecurity 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 have been 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 have also started marching 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.
The march which set off from Al-Nour mosque fills Al-Khalifa Al-Maamun Street, according to an Ahram Online reporter in the field.
Protesters at the march are chanting: "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."
Another rally from Ain Shams University has already merged with the Rabaa Al-Adawaiya rally.
Slogans chanted by the protesters include "Freedom, freedom," "Revolution until victory," and "Down with the Supreme Guide [of the Muslim Brotherhood]" while waving Egyptian flags. Protesters are also waving flags displaying the faces of slain protesters, including Sheikh Emad Effat who died duringclashes with the military police and protestersduringthe December 2011 sit-in,and Siyad Belal, a Salafist activist who was tortured to death in 2010 under former president's Mubarak's rule.
Protesters are also holding banners saying: "No to the constitution" in reference to the draft constitution, which will be subject to a referendum on 15 December.
Tight security measurements have been taken in Heliopolis since early in the morning. "They are even tighter than in the days of Mubarak when it comes to the fences. The security forces have already put up barriers in order to ensure that the rallies of Al-Nour Mosque and Rabaa Al-Adawaiya Mosque do not meet," Mahmoud Salem, a leading member of the Free Egyptians Party, told Ahram Online.