Internet users on Wednesday shared a video clip that shows military police beating and dragging a protester on the ground while dispersing a sit-in by Christians outside the state TV building. The person who posted the clip said the scene was filmed Wednesday morning on Ramses Street below the 6th of October Bridge when military police forces started to forcibly evacuate a sit-in decrying an assault on an Aswan church on Friday. The clip shows more than 10 officers surrounding a young man laying on the ground before kicking him and flogging him with batons. A week ago, Egypt's military prosecutors summoned an army officer and a policeman who had appeared in another video clip that showed army and police officers abusing two people in a police station in Daqahlia. Egyptian activists have accused the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces of adopting the oppressive policies of toppled President Hosni Mubarak. They accuse military forces of several abuses including conducting virginity tests on female protesters, torturing detainees, and prosecuting civilians before military tribunals. In July, an oil station worker said military officers tortured him after he asked them not to cut a line of drivers waiting to fuel their vehicles. In August, the Arab Network for Human Rights Information called for an investigation into such abuses and demanded that the perpetrators be punished. Translated from the Arabic Edition
