There have been noisy lunch-break demonstrations in Bangkok's business district, and a sit-in at Democracy Monument in the old royal quarter, as well as many smaller protests.
Police there have used water cannon and tear gas to break up demonstrations almost every night.
Negin said, "The people going out to break up demonstrations have been told that they are God's foot soldiers.
More than 800 Egyptians were killed in the past year as the military used excessive force to break up demonstrations and torture detainees.
On Thursday, Mr. Odinga held a news conference deploring the tactics used by the police to break up demonstrations, which the government has deemed illegal.
Amnesty International accuses the 64-year-old, who has been in power since 1990, of jailing critics, including journalists, and using security forces to break up demonstrations.
They belonged to a special law-and-order unit that is not much beloved because it includes riot police who break up demonstrations.
There were reports of unrest in the capital, Kinshasa, with police shooting into the air and firing teargas to break up demonstrations, according to witnesses.
As protesters blocked an interstate highway, police flooded streets in Bearcat military vehicles and used smoke bombs to break up demonstrations.
Though protests, set off by the pivot toward Russia, were initially peaceful, things turned violent in January when police tried to break up demonstrations in a violent crackdown.
It was not clear whether the vigilantes surrounding the mosque on Saturday had been collaborating with the security services, who have long relied on plainclothes enforcers to brutally break up demonstrations.
