Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has wrapped up her first visit to Egypt since the election of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi last month. Over the weekend, Clinton held separate talks with Morsi and the head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Hussein Tantawi. Clinton said she was in Egypt to support the country’s democratic transition.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: “Democracy is hard. We have been at this for more than 236 years, and it requires dialogue and compromise and real politics. So we are encouraged, and we want to be helpful, but we know that it is not for the United States to decide, it is for the Egyptian people to decide.”

Clinton faced a number of protests during her visit, with memories still fresh of her public support for ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak when the uprising broke out last year. Clinton’s motorcade was pelted with projectiles as it headed to the city of Alexandria on Saturday. In Cairo, former Guantánamo Bay prisoner Sami Abdul Aziz took part in a protest against Clinton, calling for compensation to victims of U.S. torture.

Sami Abdul Aziz: “The Americans have imprisoned me at Guantánamo for four years. They completely tortured me and destroyed me. The military court deemed me innocent of their accusations, and I have rights to ask after four years of torture.”