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- Mass violence continues in Egypt amidst the bloodiest period in the
country's modern history. Around 900 people have been killed since state
forces attacked Muslim Brotherhood protest encampments five days ago.
At least 173 people were killed in a "Day of Rage" protest called by the
Brotherhood on Friday followed by at least 79 deaths on Saturday.
Around 90 police officers and soldiers have died in the violence but
Islamist supporters of the Brotherhood and ousted President Mohamed
Morsi account for the bulk of the victims. On Sunday, at least 36
prisoners were killed in Cairo after guards said they tried to escape
while being transferred. But the Muslim Brotherhood accused state forces
of a "cold-blooded killing" and demanded an international probe. And
earlier today at least 24 police officers were reportedly killed in the
northern Sinai after coming under attack by militants. "New horrors are
brought every day, nightmarish scenes that Egyptians could never have
imagined," Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous reports
from Cairo. "It's not a Cairo that many people recognize. With both
sides vowing to escalate, worse days surely lie ahead."
U.S. questions Egypt prisoner deaths, Mubarak may be freed
CAIRO |
(Reuters)
- An Egyptian court ruling has raised the prospect of freedom for
deposed military strongman Hosni Mubarak, while the United States
questioned Egypt's account of the deaths of dozens of Islamist detainees
and called the incident "suspicious."Six weeks after the armed forces toppled President Mohamed Mursi and about a week after hundreds died when security forces broke up protests by his Muslim Brotherhood, the United States said on Monday it was still reviewing whether to freeze any of the $1.55 billion (990.35 million pounds) it gives Egypt in mainly military annual aid.
The United States has been a close ally of Egypt, the biggest nation in the Arab world, since it made peace with Israel in 1979.
The 85-year-old Mubarak, arrested after his overthrow in 2011, can no longer be held on a corruption charge, a court ruled on Monday in a decision his lawyer said removed one of the last obstacles to his release on bail. The ruling coincided with another decision from the public prosecutor to press new charges against Mursi of inciting violence.
Fareed el-Deeb, Mubarak's lawyer, told Reuters: "All we have left is a simple administrative procedure that should take no more than 48 hours. He should be freed by the end of the week."
A judicial source, without confirming that Mubarak would be released, said Mubarak would spend at least two more weeks behind bars before the criminal court can make a final decision in another corruption case against him.
The killing of 25 Egyptian policemen in the Sinai near the desert border with Israel on Monday was blamed by the new, military-installed government on Islamist militants. State television carried emotional demands for retribution against the Muslim Brotherhood.
The policemen were on their way to their barracks in Rafah when militants attacked them with machine-guns and rocket-propelled grenades, according to security sources. Egyptian state television reported that the presidency announced three days of mourning for the "martyrs of Rafah."
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