CAIRO (AP) — Hundreds of supporters of Mohammed Morsi took to the streets today, holding scattered rallies across the city in a test of whether the ousted Egyptian president’s allies can keep up the pressure on the government despite the arrest of much of their senior leadership. Protesters chanted against the military and held up posters of the president on smaller streets and outside neighborhood mosques, dodging major thoroughfares and squares where military and security forces deployed in strength ahead of the rallies, sometimes behind barbed wire barricades.
The demonstrations come a day after deposed autocrat Hosni Mubarak was released from prison and placed under house arrest in a military hospital in southern Cairo.
Morsi’s allies sent live-feed video to reporters from the different rally sites, a move designed to make up for the shutting down of a number of Islamist TV stations following his ouster.
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