Video: Egypt: Tens of thousands at Tahrir Square protests Television footage showed a teeming mass of protesters filling Tahrir Square in Cairo, making known their support for the overthrow of Mohammed Morsi by the country's military earlier this month. Army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi had earlier urged those opposed to Mr Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood to take to the streets. Scores were of Brotherhood supporters were killed when security forces opened fire on them as they continued a sit-in protest at the Rabaah al-Adawiyah mosque in eastern Cairo.