By Sarah Carr CAIRO: The uncle of Khaled Saeid gave a press conference on Saturday in which he rejected the interior ministry’s allegations against Saeid, who eyewitnesses say was beaten to death by two policemen earlier this month. Both Ali Qassem and lawyer Mohamed Abdel-Aziz, a member of the legal team representing Saeid’s family say that …
By Jailan Zayan  / AFP CAIRO: A 28-year-old man reportedly beaten to death by police in Egypt’s northern city of Alexandria last week has become the latest symbol of police brutality among tech-savvy Egyptian activists. Posters of Khaled Saeid have been carried at demonstrations while Facebook groups dedicated to him have been created since he was …
By Rania Al Malky CAIRO: The iconic image of the disfigured face of Khaled Saeid will haunt you for a long time. So if you haven’t seen it already, think a hundred times before you do. In this newspaper, we unanimously agreed not to run the morgue photographs of the alleged victim of a police beating …
Abdel-Fattah was interrogated Monday for the third time in the same week where the prosecutor held him on remand for four days.
The statement concludes by saying that even if Saied was guilty of the crimes Ali ascribes to him, “we would still have held a protest for a hashish user”.
According to the authorities, Saeid died after swallowing a bag of narcotics at the moment he was approached by police.
Inside the cordoned-off area there were sporadic, minor clashes between protestors and security bodies as the latter picked off and detained individual demonstrators.
Its statement mentions that “certain elements” are using the media to “spread claims that secret policemen assaulted Saeid which caused his death.
