Latest leak shows high-level sanction
for violence in which 24 protesters died – and raises hopes of jailing
perpetrators
Patrick Kingsley and Louisa Loveluck in Cairo
guardian.co.uk,
" Senior interior ministry officials sanctioned the use of live ammunition against protesters in Suez during the opening days of Egypt's revolution, according to a leaked fact-finding report commissioned by the president.
guardian.co.uk,
" Senior interior ministry officials sanctioned the use of live ammunition against protesters in Suez during the opening days of Egypt's revolution, according to a leaked fact-finding report commissioned by the president.
Under the watch of the interior ministry's most senior representative in the region, police fired indiscriminately at crowds from the roof of a police station, according to the report, and senior police officers allowed their deputies to remove weaponry from official stores without presenting identification. The report also describes how a military officer ordered plainclothes police to carry firearms through the streets even after police had been officially evacuated from the city.
These are the latest
revelations from a tranche of a report commissioned by the president, Mohamed Morsi, that has
been leaked to the Guardian. The new material covers the events of January and
early February 2011 in Suez, the first large city to hold major
protests against the rule of the then president, Hosni Mubarak.
Earlier leaks documented
allegations that the
military were involved in torture, killings and forced disappearances during the
uprising......."
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