An Egyptian party launched an attack against the Egyptian security apparatuses, claiming they still practice “repression, kidnapping and torture against dissidents”.
The Strong Egypt Party said in a statement on Wednesday that the January 25 Revolution “came to protest the practices of the security services against the Egyptians”.
The party, which is headed by former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, said: “The security services did not learn the lesson of [the revolution] in January”. The statement added that they have only practiced further injustice.
“Public anger on the performance of the regime is attributed to the mega projects that squandered public money to no avail, the police’s injustice, the Renaissance Dam crisis, the deterioration of services, and the increase in the cronyism,” read the statement.
Security sources and human rights activists say that Egyptian security services launched earlier this week an arrests campaign to prevent protests organised to mark the fifth anniversary of the January 25 Revolution.