The Egyptian government has approved a proposal to name Rabaa Al-Adawiyya Square in Nasr City area of Cairo after the country’s ex-prosecutor general, Hisham Barakat, who was assassinated last month, Anadolu news agency has reported. Barakat was killed in a car bomb in Cairo, but no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The Egyptian Judges’ Club, headed by Judge Abdullah Fathi, called for the move to honour their late colleague.
The square was thrust into the international spotlight after supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi held protests there following the military coup which brought Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to power. At least 1,000 demonstrators were killed, and almost 4,000 were wounded, when police broke up the protests in August 2013. The police action was described by Human Rights Watch as “one of the world’s largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history.”
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