WRAP Egypt's military police clash with protesters

(16 Dec 2011) 1. Protesters throwing stones at military police 2. Military police on top of prime minister's office throwing stones at protesters 3. Protesters standing by line of burning material 4. Various of smoke coming from broken windows opposite prime minister's office 5. Protesters chanting, calling for an end to military rule 6. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Najlaa Ahmed, Protester: "There were some protesters playing football and the ball dropped into the parliament building and one protester went to get the ball and he was beaten badly and this is what triggered the clashes." 7. Zoom in to security forces on building next to the parliament 8. Protesters setting fire to tyres and throwing stones at police guarding the parliament building and the prime minister's office 9. Mid shot protester making victory sign 10. Pan right to protesters running away and throwing stones at police 11. Injured protester being carried away by other protesters 12. Close-up injured protester being treated 13. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Adel Salah, Protester: "I want to tell the new interior minister that he has made a good start by saying that he will look after the protesters, and this is what we need. We need you (interior minister) to be committed to these protesters who are like our family, the same as you are to the police force." 14. Protesters and security throwing stones at each other STORYLINE: Soldiers stormed a protest camp outside Egypt's Cabinet building in the capital Cairo on Friday, expelling demonstrators calling for an end to military rule, just as officials were counting votes in the second round of the country's parliamentary elections. The clashes underlined simmering tensions between activists and security officers and threatened to ignite a new round of violence after a mostly peaceful vote Wednesday and Thursday in an election considered the freest and fairest vote in the country's modern history. Clashes erupted as demonstrators were camped out in front of the Cabinet building, demanding that the country's military rulers transfer power immediately to a civilian authority. The sit-in was in its third week. One activist posted a photo online of a female protester beaten in the clashes, and others said they were briefly detained by military police. It was unclear how many protesters remain in military police custody. On his Twitter account, leading reform figure and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei condemned the violence. "If the sit-in broke the law, isn't the cruelty and brutality used to break it up a greater violation of all human rights laws? This is not how nations are managed," he wrote. The military took over after long-time President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in a popular revolt in February. Rights groups and activists charge that the military is carrying on the practices of the old regime, including arresting and beating dissidents. Protesters at the Cabinet building said the clashes began Thursday evening after soldiers severely beat a young man who was taking part in the sit-in. Hundreds of people rushed to join the protest after online video and photos showed people carrying the wounded man. The pictures showed his face and eyes bruised and swollen, his head wrapped in gauze and blood dripping from his nose. Witnesses accused military police of snatching the man from near the sit-in and beating him inside parliament, near Cabinet headquarters. Then protesters threw rocks and firebombs at military police. Plainclothes security officers could be seen throwing rocks at protesters from the parliament building. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...