Hundreds of Egyptian activists have demonstrated against the country’s anti-protest laws.

They marched to the presidential palace in Cairo on Saturday to call for the scrapping of the law passed by Egypt’s army-backed interim leadership in November.

The law requires anyone planning a demonstration to obtain police permission. Saturday’s protesters did not.

A few threw stones at the police and chanted “Down, down with army rule,” but there was no significant violence.

Elsewhere in the capital, a court sentenced 13 supporters of deposed president Mohammed Morsi to prison sentences ranging from five to 88 years.

They were accused of “rioting, sabotage and public order offences” in the towns of Samalut and Minya during protests against a bloody crackdown in Cairo on August 14 when hundreds of people were killed.

On Monday, the same court is due to pass sentence on Muslim Brotherhood chief Mohammed Badie and 700 other Morsi supporters.