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1/6/2002
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EOHR Calls for Immediate Investigation in the Death of Eight Citizens in the Third Phase Run-Off
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7/12/2005
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) condemns security forces' transgressions against voters, in which they prevented citizens in some poll stations from casting their votes; EOHR observers declared the accurate information about the eight dead citizens at 10 pm; the dead are (al-Saeed al-Deghedy, Shaaban Abu Rabaa, and Atif Mohamed Ahmed in Damietta Governorate, Mohamed Karam Taher Eliwa, Mohamed Ahmed Mahdy Gazar, and Mostafa abdel Salam in al-Sharqia Governorate, Mohamed Hassan al-Bahrawy and Tamer Khidr al-Qamash in al-Daqahlia Governorate), while many others were injured.
In Governorates (Damietta, al-Sharqia and al-Daqahlia), EOHR observers monitored security forces besiege on many stations' gates, in which the citizens weren't able to get inside to cast their votes, moreover they shot the voters with gun fire, rubber bullet and tear gas bombs, which led to the death of the two citizens in the two previous phases.
In details, the third phase round one election witnessed the death of 'Gomaa Saad al-Zeftawy', the representative of (Hamdeen Sabahy) the candidate of al-Karama and National Front Movement, he was shot by security forces' guns, the second round also witnessed the death of 'Mohamed Khalil Ibrahim' the private driver of the independent candidate (Hassan Hussien) -Gomrok Constituency held in Alexandria Governorate, the incident as follows: the victim was standing in front of poll station (the Egyptian Corporation's stores for Navigation), then some trouble makers stabbed him with cold steel, then he was transferred to Ras al-Teen Hospital, where he was in a critical state then he died.
On the pretext of EOHR's denial to security forces' transgression acts, EOHR calls security apparatus to investigate in the incident, and to transfer the head officers to prosecution as soon as possible.
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