Photo gallery: Mass rival rallies called in Egypt as crisis sharpens
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Protesters chant slogans during a demonstration in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Dec 9, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
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An opposition supporter stands on top of a step painted with graffiti and Arabic writing that reads, "We are all people" during a demonstration outside Egyptian presidential palace against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, on Dec 9, 2012, in Cairo. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Pro-Mursi supporters hold banners reading "I support the President's decisions", during a march in Cairo, Dec 9, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Masks of Guy Fawkes are displayed by a street vendor in the previously sealed off precinct in front of the Egyptian presidential palace in Cairo on Dec 9, 2012 -- PHOTO: AFP
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Protesters chant slogans during a demonstration in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Dec 9, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
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Soldiers stand guard on top a tank in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Dec 9, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
Protesters chant slogans during a demonstration in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Dec 9, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
An opposition supporter stands on top of a step painted with graffiti and Arabic writing that reads, "We are all people" during a demonstration outside Egyptian presidential palace against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, on Dec 9, 2012, in Cairo. -- PHOTO: AFP
Pro-Mursi supporters hold banners reading "I support the President's decisions", during a march in Cairo, Dec 9, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Masks of Guy Fawkes are displayed by a street vendor in the previously sealed off precinct in front of the Egyptian presidential palace in Cairo on Dec 9, 2012 -- PHOTO: AFP
Protesters chant slogans during a demonstration in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Dec 9, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
Soldiers stand guard on top a tank in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Dec 9, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
CAIRO (AFP) - Rival mass protests have been called for next Tuesday in Egypt over a bitterly disputed constitutional referendum, raising the potential for more violent street clashes in a sharpening political crisis.
President Mohamed Mursi's chief foes, the opposition National Salvation Front, late on Sunday called for huge protests in Cairo to reject the Dec 15 referendum on a new charter.
The Muslim Brotherhood, from which Dr Mursi hails, told AFP that it and allied Islamist movements would counter with their own big rallies in the capital in support of the referendum.
