The lawyers’ team, composed of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), the El Nadim Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and lawyers of the Maspero martyrs’ families, in a press conference at the EIPR headquarters on Wednesday (April 11), said the military judiciary has proved after 12 sessions that it was not concerned with achieving justice.
The team demanded an independent civil investigative panel with extensive powers to consider all the details of the “carnage,” adding these powers must include investigations with armed forces personnel.
Clashes had erupted between army soldiers and Coptic protesters outside the state radio & TV building in the area of Masepro on October 9, 2011, leaving about 27 people killed and dozens others wounded.
The lawyers also demanded that the investigations would cover the inciting language in the official media against Copts and that the independent commission would announce the results of its work within a period not exceeding three weeks in a press conference.
“The case was emptied of its content when the military prosecution accused three soldiers of manslaughter of only 15 of the people gathered outside the state radio & TV building,” Jean Girgis, the brother of martyr Sāmih Girgis, said. [‘Imād Khalīl, al-Misrī al-Yawm, April 12, p. 8] Read original text in Arabic
[Reviewer’s Note: A report of the same content was mentioned in al-Jumhūrīyah, April 12, p. 21]
