The demonstrators massed in Tahrir Square on Friday July 15,2016, holding placards reading "Yes, yes to reform. No, no to sectarianism. No, no to corruption".
The protest went ahead despite the security forces warning late on Thursday that the rally called by the influential Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was "unauthorised" and would be treated as a "terrorist threat".
Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has been calling for political and economic reforms, including the formation of a government of technocrats, to put an end to what he says is a corrupt power-sharing system between the country's rival sectarian and political factions.
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