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Morsi, military close ranks to deny charges of torture
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 13 - 04 - 2013

CAIRO – Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi and the military have closed ranks to deny charges that soldiers had killed and tortured protesters, following leaks of an inquiry report implicating officers.
Defense Minister Abdel Fattah Al-Sissi, who is also army chief, denied in a statement aired Friday that the military had committed abuses, after talks Thursday night with Morsi, who had named the fact-finding inquiry last year.
“I swear, by God, the armed forces did not kill nor order killings; it did not act treacherously, nor did it order treachery,” Sissi, standing next to Morsi, said in a televised statement.
Morsi in turn praised the armed forces for “protecting Egypt when it started its march on January 25,” referring to the 2011 uprising which overthrew president Hosni Mubarak and ushered in interim military rule.
Egypt's press and Britain's Guardian newspaper have published leaks from the report by the fact-finding panel, named shortly after Morsi took office last June, implicating the military in killings, torture and disappearances.
According to a report in The Guardian, the inquiry found that army officers ordered doctors to treat wounded demonstrators without anesthesia after they clashed with soldiers during protests against military rule in 2012.
The inquiry also reportedly documented cases of soldiers committing killings and torture during the 18-day uprising which overthrew Mubarak in early 2011, after he had deployed the military to try to quash the unrest.
In early January, the committee submitted its report to Morsi, who referred it to a “revolutionary prosecution” he created to investigate crimes during the revolt and under military rule.
It was not immediately clear whether the leaked sections were from drafts or the final report.
The New York-based lobby group Human Rights Watch Friday urged Morsi to release the report, which he had ordered at a time of tensions with the military in 2012.
“Releasing the fact-finding report would be the Egyptian government's first acknowledgment of two years' worth of police and military abuses,” Nadim Houry, its deputy Middle East director, said in a statement.
Despite reports in January that the inquiry would be published shortly, the report has been shrouded in secrecy, prompting some to accuse the government of suppressing the findings.
A presidential aide said Friday that the report detailed “16 new incidents, which have been assigned to 16 prosecutors to investigate.” – Agencies


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