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Amnesty condemns impunity enjoyed by Egypt security forces

August 15, 2018 at 10:29 am

Smoke rises from the clashes between protesters and Egyptian forces [Ahmed Asad/Apaimages]

Amnesty International has condemned the state of “impunity” enjoyed by the Egyptian security forces five years after the violent dispersalof the sit-in organised in Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Al-Nahdha Squares in Cairo in which hundreds of people were killed.

“The Egyptian authorities’ failure to hold anyone to account for the 2013 massacreby security forces of at least 900 people attending protests in Cairo’s Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Al-Nahda Squares, epitomises the country’s unprecedented human rights crisis,” the rights group said in a statement yesterday.

“The Rabaa Massacre was a horrific turning point for human rights in Egypt. Over the past five years human rights violations by Egyptian security forces, such as carrying out enforced disappearancesand extrajudicial executions, have occurred on a scale never seen before,” said Najia Bounaim, North Africa Campaigns Director at Amnesty International.

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