19.08.2013 - 16:41 [ Human Rights Watch ]

Egypt: Security Forces Used Excessive Lethal Force: Worst Mass Unlawful Killings in Country’s Modern History

Based on first-hand documentation and interviews with health workers by Human Rights Watch, and lists of the dead obtained by the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights, the death toll during the dispersal of the Rab’a sit-in appears to be at least 377, significantlyhigher than the latest Rab’a death toll of 288 announced by the Health Ministry.