Thousands gathered in Tahrir Square last night to celebrate the coming of the new year, and to commemorate those who fell during the protests of 2011 [AFP]
An image from the AFP news agency showing a religious scholar from al-Azhar University attempting to protect himself from tear gas on Mohamed Mahmoud Street today:
Our team above Tahrir Square has been observing protesters the injured back from the front line fight with security forces at a rate of around one person every minute or two. The crowd in Tahrir has formed a corridor to allow ambulances to deliver the wounded straight to a field clinic in the square if their injuries are not serious:
Linda Wardani, a freelance journalist in Cairo, posted this picture of Tahrir Square this morning. "Tahrir still a battle field with lots of tear gas and hundreds injured year gas masks needed please," she wrote.