Opponents of Mohamed Morsi
say the footage proves that the president has chosen to order a brutal
crackdown
A video of a protester
being beaten and stripped
naked has galvanised protests against the police and government in Egypt.
Hamada Saber, a middle-aged man, remained in a police hospital on Saturday,
the morning after he was shown on television, dragged over naked tarmac and
beaten by half a dozen policemen who had pulled him to an armoured vehicle near
the presidential palace.....But the police action against protests this time has been far deadlier than it was even a few months ago, when bigger crowds demonstrated against a new constitution. That suggests to opponents that Morsi has ordered a tougher response.
Khaled Daoud, a spokesman for the opposition National Front said: "The instructions of the interior minister to use excessive violence in confronting protesters does not seem like surprising behaviour given the clear incitement by prominent figures in the presidency, and leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood to which the president belongs, and other parties in solidarity with them."......."
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