Aug. 14 marks the seventh anniversary of a peaceful sit-in in Cairo’s Rabaa Square by hundreds of supporters of the elected president at that time, protests that ended in a deadly crackdown.
The massacre came weeks after Morsi was deposed by the military as a result of a series of demonstrations against his one-year rule.
At least 817 protesters were killed by Egyptian security forces, according to Human Rights Watch, which described the killings as “systematic” and “one of the world’s largest” in a single day in modern history.
Thousands of prisoners and millions of Egyptians, had their freedoms and lives taken away by the massacre, as they knew it, and thousands were forced to emigrate, asylum and exile.
Abdel Fattah El-Sisi made Egypt a land of fear, and extrajudicial killings continued, and the prison pursuit of opponents of all political currents, not only political but also economic and social levels.
Since June 2013, more than a thousand political prisoners have been left to the slow death of Egypt, the last of whom was Dr Essam El-Erian, he was a doctor, a Muslim Brotherhood leader, and the deputy head of the Justice and Development Party, and advisor to the late Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.
In a killing in Egypt, we have documented dozens of stories and are working on documenting hundreds, so that the massacre does not turn into a mere annual number that passes, because keeping the human story alive is the only guarantor against the claims of the Egyptian regime that carried out the massacre that the victims were a threat to Egyptian security.
If justice is still absent, then one of the ways to achieve it, or the first step on the road, is to collect information and facts about what happened.
Despite numerous calls for justice by human rights groups, supporters and the families of the victims, justice has not yet been served. It is believed that since the regime considers the protesters “terrorists,” it has no incentive to grant them rights.
Since 2014, Egypt has been ruled by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who was the minister of defence during Morsi’s tenure. In one of his statements in 2014, Sisi indicated that the killing of the protesters was premeditated as the state expected demonstrations to happen after Morsi’s overthrow and “was ready for that.”