The Egyptian Cabinet decided yesterday to rename the Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square in Nasr City, east of Cairo, after the late Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat who was killed in a bomb attack on his convoy on Monday.
The Egyptian Judges’ Club had called for the name to be changed to honour their co-worker.
The infamous square became known after demonstrators organised sit-ins to protest against the military coup which ousted Egypt’s first freely-elected President Mohamed Morsi.
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Barakat gave the police and armed forces permission to break up the sit-ins in Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Ennahda Squares which led to hundreds of deaths and more than 10,000 injured on 14 August 2013 in the biggest massacre in modern Egyptian history.
He has also referred the cases of hundreds of protesters from the sit-ins to criminal courts charging them of resisting authority.
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The former prosecutor general also referred the cases of Egypt’s first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi and tens of Muslim Brotherhood leaders to trial on charges of espionage, prison break, incitement to murder and insulting the judiciary.
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