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| Egypt Rabaa torture victim changes testimony |
| 2013-10-04 |
| [Al Ahram] An Egyptian court was taken aback on Thursday after a man tortured at a Cairo protest camp by loyalists of deposed president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... changed his account of the incident. Ahmed Hassan Mohsen, a garage attendant, was badly tortured and had his finger amputated in the vicinity of a pro-Morsi sit-in in northeast Cairo in July. Mohsen's assailants then drove him to a desert region and threw him on a freeway. Earlier, Mohsen told Sherlocks that he was tortured by pro-Moslem Brüderbund protesters at the Rabaa Al-Adawiya sit-in after they accused him and a friend of stealing a cell phone. In the Thursday hearing, Mohsen backed down on his statement. He instead claimed that the defendants came to his rescue and that the accusations were trumped up by a police officer, according to judicial sources. Mohsen said a police officer forced him to accuse the defendants of torture after the policeman failed to arrest them. He did not specify, however, who the assailants were. Several allegations of torture of anti-Brotherhood protesters and coppers were reported during the two week long pro-Morsi sit-ins in Cairo and Giza, charges denied by Islamists. The interior ministry also stated that the bodies of torture victims were found at the sites. |
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