Egypt activist died of barbaric torture, forensic experts say
Egypt’s forensic doctors have admitted that "barbaric torture” had been behind the death of an activist while he was in police custody in the capital city of Cairo, Press TV reports.
On Monday, the experts submitted their report to a Cairo court, saying Karim Hamdy had been beaten to death inside al-Matariya police station in the east of the capital in late February.
This is while the Egyptian authorities had earlier reported that Hamdy, a 28-year-old lawyer, had committed suicide in detention.
Hamdy had defended a number of prisoners of conscience, including several from Muslim Brotherhood party, who were arrested and prosecuted during Cairo’s heavy-handed crackdown on anti-government protesters.
Earlier in the day, the family of Mohamed al-Awden, a Brotherhood affiliate, also said that police forces had thrown the dissident from a fifth-floor balcony during a raid on their apartment.
The Egyptian authorities are responsible for the life of the anti-government activist who is currently in an intensive care unit in a hospital in the Nile Delta province of al-Monoufiya, the family said.
Meanwhile, Egypt’s Interior Ministry announced that 24 Muslim Brotherhood members have been arrested across the country over the past 24 hours.
Earlier in September, the UK-based Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) said it possesses some “tangible evidence” which shows that nine senior Brotherhood members who were killed inside their apartment on the outskirts of Cairo some three months ago, were "tortured" to death.
This is while the Egyptian Interior Ministry claimed that the slain activists had lost their lives during a “shootout.”
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi is heavily censured by rights groups for launching a heavy-handed crackdown on the supporters of the country’s ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, and stifling freedom of speech in the Arab country. Sisi was the head of the armed forces of Egypt when Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, was overthrown in a coup in July 2013.
Hundreds of supporters of Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood movement have been killed and thousands of others detained during Cairo’s clampdown. This is while many of those in custody, including Morsi himself, have received death sentences in speedy mass trials.
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