Ukraine in Arabic | Egypt's Interior Minister denies forces fired on protesters
Kiev/Ukraine in Arabic/ 25 people were killed in anti-government demonstrations in Cairo on Sunday. Egypt's interior minister Mohamed Ibrahim said that it was members of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood who shot at protesters, not police, after at least 25 people were killed in anti-government demonstrations in Cairo on Sunday.
The protests erupted on Sunday on the anniversary of the 2011 uprising over the then-President Hosni Mubarak's autocratic 30-year rule.
Mohamed Ibrahim, Egypt's Interior Minister: "What you are saying is impossible. Riot police can't be armed with firearms or birdshots (shotgun shells). If this was what happened during the Talaat Harb incident - if we had fired, I didn't want to talk about this, if we had fired, if the fo rces had fired birdshots in Talaat Harb, you wouldn't have heard about one death only. You would have heard about a large number."
The Islamist Muslim Brotherhood government which replaced Mubarak's and the current regime under former army general President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, have all been accused of failing to protect democratic values and civil liberties.
Hundreds of soldiers and police have been killed by Islamist militants since the ousting of Islamist president Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood party. Egypt's interior minister blamed them for infiltrating the protest and causing Sunday's bloodshed.
By Ukraine Today.
