Patrick Kingsley and Louisa Loveluck in Cairo
guardian.co.uk,
The findings, which relate
to the army's behaviour during the
Abbassiya clashes in May 2012, are the latest leak to the Guardian of a
suppressed report investigating human rights abuses in Egypt since the start of the
2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak. Earlier leaks alleged that the
military were involved in torture,
killings and forced disappearances during the uprising.
The new chapter contains testimony from doctors and protesters about the treatment of injured demonstrators at the Kobri el-Qoba military hospital in Cairo in May 2012.
It alleges that a senior military doctor ordered subordinates to operate on wounded protesters without anaesthetic or sterilisation and reports that doctors, nurses and senior officers also beat some of the wounded protesters. It also claims that a senior officer ordered soldiers to lock protesters in a basement......"
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