Anti-riot police responded with tear gas, and a government vehicle was burned near a mosque where Rogo once preached.
The head of the country's mobile anti-riot police force has been sacked and Hindu shopkeepers are arming themselves against looters.
The protesters gathered in Peace Square just before their planned march but were stopped in their tracks by a determined anti-riot police.
The journalist said there were no reports of injuries and that he only saw ordinary police on the scene -- not anti-riot police.
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Anti-riot police used rubber bullets and tear gas canisters to disperse the crowd that invaded the pitch after Malawi lost 1-0 to the visitors.
"Mousavi was not allowed to recite the Koran verses said on such occasions and he was immediately surrounded by anti-riot police who led him to his car, " one person told AFP.
"Death to the dictatorship" and "down with the dictator" shouted the demonstrators while being clubbed by police and anti-riot squads.
Police carried anti-riot equipment and encircled the protesting workers.
Some are members of the People's Armed Police, an anti-riot force.
Whenever Shia lads burnt tyres or scrawled anti-government graffiti, Sheikh Khalifa would call out riot police to round up and often beat up the miscreants, while Sheikh Issa busied himself with charming foreign visitors.
Only three hundred police officials were deployed without adequate anti-riot gear and when they tried to clear the highway on June 5, they were attacked by several thousand protesters, many of whom were armed.
When I interviewed a Syriza spokesman earlier this year I explored the problem of a far-left party, which is anti-Nato etc, taking power in a country whose riot police have been regularly clashing with that party's youth since 2008.
Riot police are cracking down on opposition supporters who have defied a ban on anti-government protest rallies, creating a murderous mix.
Police maintained a heavy presence in the district on Thursday, with reports of anti-riot vans deployed in the area.
Early on Wednesday, Czech riot police surrounded protesters who attempted to march onto a police station where about 400 of the anti-globalisation activists are being held.
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