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August 9, 2013       Share:    

Source: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/08/08/egypt_s_islamists_turn_violent

Egypt's Islamists Turn Violent

(Foreign Policy) Bel Trew - On July 26, during clashes with supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi, Ahmed Sabet, 22, who is part of the April 6 Youth Movement that opposes the former leader, was a victim of an armed assault by an Islamist mob. He was dragged by pro-Morsi protesters to a nearby mosque, where a dozen other individuals were being held. There, he says, they tortured him for 14 hours. "He has three stab wounds, a bullet hole through his leg and stick marks all over his body," said his cousin, Aly al-Masry, 20, who told Sabet's story from his bedside as he drifted in and out of consciousness. There is now mounting evidence that some Brotherhood loyalists within the pro-Morsi sit-ins are indeed armed, and have committed what some human rights groups describe as torture against their political opponents. Amnesty International released a report on Aug. 2 in which anti-Morsi protesters recount being "captured, beaten, subjected to electric shocks or stabbed" at the Islamists' two encampments in the Cairo districts of Nasr City and Giza.

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