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| Egypt Charges 379 with Murder over 2013 Cairo Unrest |
| 2015-04-09 |
| [AnNahar] Egyptian prosecutors pressed murder charges against 379 people on Wednesday over the deaths of coppers and civilians during the bloody dispersal of Islamist protest camps in the capital in 2013. It was not immediately clear how many of the defendants were in jug but it was the latest in a string of controversial mass trials to be announced over the violence that followed the army's overthrow of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in July that year. Prosecutors charge that the defendants took part in an "armed sit-in" at the capital's Nahda Square in August 2013, and in "armed marches that attacked civilians" in several parts of Cairo. "Their action resulted in casualties among coppers and civilians," a prosecution statement said. Cairo's Nahda and Rabaa squares were the locations of protest camps set up by Morsi's supporters that were broken up by police on August 14, 2013 at the cost of hundreds of lives. Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... described it at the time as "one of the largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history." Prosecutors charged that during the dispersal of the Nahda Square protest camp the defendants used "force and violence against the police". "This led to the killing of two coppers and wounding of 27 others," they said. Other charges pressed against the defendants include illegal imprisonment and torture, forcibly resisting the security forces, weapons possession, occupying public property and blocking public transport. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Was this the protest where Team Morsi made a wall of people and had shooters firing from in between wall members? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2015-04-09 12:49 |