Video: Violent clashes mark anniversary of Egypt uprising One prominent activist, Nazli Hussein, was detained by police on the subway as she headed from her home to join one such rally downtown, her mother, Ghada Shahbendar said. The past three years of turmoil have split Egyptian society. Elsewhere on Saturday, supporters of the military-backed government were celebrating and called on army chief General Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to run for president, while Morsi's supporters were staging demonstrations as they try to build a new momentum in defiance to the military and its political transition plan. The days' rallies are taking place in an atmosphere of fear, a day after four bombs exploded in Cairo targeting police and killing six people, believed to be an escalation of a campaign of attacks by Islamic militants.