Policiers libérés : émeute à Suez – 6 juillet 2011

Emeute à Suez après la libération de policiers

tempsreel.nouvelobs.com

06-07-11

LE CAIRE (AP) — Des centaines de personnes jettent des pierres sur le quartier général des forces de sécurité à Suez pour protester contre la libération de sept policiers accusés d’avoir tués des manifestants pendant le soulèvement anti-Moubarak en Egypte.

Un tribunal du Caire vient de rejeter l’appel formé contre la remise en liberté de ces policiers dans l’attente de leur procès.

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Egyptians riot in Suez over police trials

bbc.co.uk

6 July 2011

Riots have erupted in the Egyptian city of Suez, after a court upheld the release on bail of policemen accused of killing 17 people during the uprising.

Hundreds of family members of the victims attacked police cars and pelted the court building with stones.

Similar clashes erupted in Cairo on Monday when the seven officers were originally granted bail.

Anger has been growing in Egypt about the slow pace of trials for Mubarak-era officials and security forces.

Activists have called for a million-strong demonstration on Friday in Cairo’s Tahrir Square – the epicentre of the 18-day uprising that forced President Hosni Mubarak to resign on 11 February.

Brotherhood backing

Since then, only one policeman has been convicted in more than a dozen court cases over the deaths of nearly 850 people in the government crackdown on protesters, the AP news agency reports. He was tried in absentia.

And on Tuesday, a Cairo court acquitted three ministers from the Mubarak regime who had been charged with squandering public funds. Read more…