According to activists, at least one protester was killed in Egypt on Friday, after thousands of people defied a police crackdown to demonstrate for the sixth straight day against the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

The unusual demonstrations – dubbed by protesters as a “Friday of rage ” – took place across cities , towns and rural areas in Egypt after noon prayers, including in the capital, Cairo, and the governorates of Giza, Damietta on the Nile Delta and Luxor in southern Egypt.

In Cairo's Helwan neighbourhood, a video clip circulated on social media showed protesters chanting: "Say it out loud and don't be afraid, el-Sisi has to go," while another showed protesters burning tires to block roads in Giza.

In the third shot, in a neighborhood in Damietta city, hundreds of protesters and riot police faced off until police charged the crowd, causing people to disperse in all directions. One video allegedly taken in Damietta 's village of Kafr Saad shows police wielding weapons as they tried to disperse demonstrators.

According to al-Mawkef al-Masry, a Facebook page run by Egyptian activists, in al-Blida village in the Giza governorate, 25-year-old Sami Wagdy Bashir was killed during a protest. In the same shooting, three others were injured, the Najda human rights group said.

Condolences were given to Bashir 's family by Mohamed Ali, a prominent opposition figure and a former military contractor living in exile.