Monday 19 August 2013

Egypt political crisis under calamity: Anti-coup Alliance demands inquiry into deaths




A cluster of Anti-Coup Alliance calls for international analysis over the deaths of 36 protesters under police custody. This has forced cohorts of the deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to hold a formal investigation into the killing of 36 protesters in police custody while

 Being transported in a police van. On addition to other horrific crimes committed by leaders of the 3rd of July coup". It’s said that the men were killed while being transferred to Abu Zaabal prison near Cairo in a convoy of about 600 detainees. The real account to the death is not yet addressed.  Since conflicting reports has it to what exactly lead to the deaths.
"We approached the chief attorney and requested a commission be formed and as we speak, the chief prosecutor has not taken any steps."
The group earlier alleged that their supporters were killed in cold blood, but Egyptian security forces said the protesters suffocated when tear gas was used to stop them from escaping.


 The Anti-Coup Alliance leaders say that some of the bodies were seen at the morgue bore marks of violence. This statement blamed the military chief, General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, and Mohammed Ibrahim, the interior Minister, who is in charge of the police, for Sunday's incident.

"The initial reports from the Interior Ministry said that armed attackers had attempted to free the prisoners. This was then amended to the fact that prisoners being transferred from a police station to another prison had overcome one of the escorts, and they had to be attacked to free that particular escort.
"Then the version emerged that prisoners who were being transported from a police station or stations to another prison tried to escape, and tear gas was used which led to loss of life."
'Evidence of assassination'
 the Anti-Coup Alliance had said it had "obtained evidence of the assassination of anti-coup detainees in a truck transferring them to Abu Zaabal prison".
"They were reportedly assassinated in their truck with live ammunition and tear gas fired from windows."
Abu Zabaal was the scene of a mass breakout of prisoners in 2011 as police abandoned their posts during protests against former President Hosni Mubarak.
On Sunday, Anti-Coup protesters broke a military curfew to march through Cairo, as the latest violence added to the rising death toll in days of unrest.
On Saturday alone, clashes between Morsi supporters and police killed 79 people, according to a government tally released on Sunday and carried by MENA, raising the death toll for four days of unrest across the country to more than 800 people killed.
About 70 police officers were killed in clashes with protesters or retaliatory attacks during the same period, according to the interior ministry.
The military of deposed Morsi on 3 July, saying that the army could not ignore the millions of protesters who had been demanding the resignation of Egypt's first democratically elected president.








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