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Egyptian Fatma al-Sharif,21, holds a bunch of hair cut from female protesters during a demonstration by Egytpian women against their country’s new constitution draft, on December 25, 2012 in Cairo’s Tahrir square. Egyptian opposition sees the new constitution as a wedge to usher in creeping Islamic law through a weakening of human rights, particularly women’s rights, and undermine the independence of the judiciary. Authorities in Egypt are to release official results a constitutional referendum which the opposition alleges was marred by fraud. AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI