Cairo's Tahrir Square gets a contested makeover

CAIRO - Egypt’s government has revamped Tahrir Square, dotting the space occupied nearly a decade ago by throngs of anti-regime protesters with Pharaonic monuments and private security guards.

Two years later, huge crowds massed in the square once again to push for and later celebrate the removal of Mohamed Mursi, Egypt’s first freely elected president, by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the then army chief. For Sisi’s opponents, 2013 marked the start of a sweeping, crackdown that ended the free-flowing atmosphere of the uprising and its aftermath.

“You are closing it off, saying you cannot do this or that, or sit there,” he said. “Before, it was open for everyone.”

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