In July 2013, the Egyptian military, backed by an uneasy coalition of disparate forces, conspired to overthrow Egypt’s first democratically elected president. Since then, the military and security forces have committed at least four separate acts of mass murder of unarmed Egyptian civilians. Several thousand people, including the heads of four major political parties, have been illegally detained. (Some estimates place the number at 19,000.) Freedom of the press, both local and foreign, has been extinguished, and Egypt is now considered more dangerous for journalists than places like Somalia. Freedom of speech is a distant and fleeting memory, and police brutality runs rampant once again.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 08:11:53 +0000