44 injured overnight in protests across Egypt
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At least 44 people were injured across Egypt in overnight anti-government protests, a health ministry spokesman told Xinhua Sunday.
Some 38 people were injured in Cairo in protests outside the Supreme Courthouse, five others in Al-Mahalla city of Gharbiya governorate, 80 km north of Cairo, and one in Fayoum governorate, 85 km south of Cairo, said Yahya Moussa.
The protests were mainly held by the revolutionary April 6 Youth Movement to mark its 5th anniversary, but they were joined by other opposition movements and parties.
Moussa said 33 out of the injured were discharged after treatment, reaffirming no death cases were registered in the protests.
April 6 Youth Movement is an opposition political movement founded in 2008 by a number of youth in support of a general strike held then by the textile workers of Al-Mahalla, the largest city of Gharbiya governorate.
The movement was among the first callers for January 2011 uprising that toppled the leadership of former president Hosni Mubarak.
It supported Mohamed Morsi in the presidential election last year but turned against him after finding the incumbent president failing to fulfill his promises and his Muslim Brotherhood attempting to dominate the country's key institutions.
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