Protest in Egypt against "rigged" elections - Democracy can be messy

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CAIRO (Reuters) - More than 200 opposition supporters protested in Cairo on Monday against what they said were rigged parliamentary elections in which President Hosni Mubarak's ruling party won some three quarters of the seats.

The demonstrators from the Kefaya Movement also condemned the deaths of 12 people in violence during the elections, which took part in three stages over a month and ended last week.

"This is the first protest after the elections, against what happened in the elections -- the forgery and the beatings that occurred," Kefaya coordinator George Ishak told Reuters.

Monitoring groups said the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) resorted to bribery and coercion to secure votes.

London-based Amnesty International said it was calling on the government to launch an independent inquiry into police shootings on the last day of voting...