The young Khaled Saeed, whose death served as a rallying point for Egypt's 25 January revolution, was murdered, according to a new medical report. Saeed died after he was forced to swallow a packet of marijuana, a report by Egypt's chief medical examiner, Ayman Fouda, has stated. The report, published on Wednesday by independent daily Al-Shorouk on its Facebook page, did not give further details. Saeed died in 6 June, 2010, when two police informants brutally beat him inside an internet cafe in Alexandria. He was suspected of uploading internet video clips that showed police officers involved in corruption and torture cases. In 2010, former chief medical examiner, al-Sabie Ahmed al-Sebaie, stated in his reports that Saeed died when he tried to swallow a packet of marijuana that was in his possession at the time he was apprehended by two agents. However, the Egyptian government removed Sebaie in May, after reports accused him of fabricating medical statements that concealed torture by police services. The Facebook page "We are all Khaled Saeed" was a rallying point for opposition groups and urged Egyptians to protest police brutality on 25 January. The protests soon developed into the nation-wide uprising that toppled former president Hosni Mubarak. The trial of the two police officers involved in Saeed's murder has been postponed to September.
