CAIRO – The Giza Criminal Court today heard testimony from three witnesses in the case of killing peaceful protestors in Kerdasa during the January 25 Revolution. The witnesses accused 13 police officers and the Secretary of Police in Imbaba and Kerdasa of killing six protestors and attempting to kill 18 others during the popular uprising that ousted former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Amr Mohammed Sanusi, who was injured on the “Friday of Anger” protest on January 28, claims to have seen an elderly woman and child attempting to cross the road. When he went to offer help, he was shot in the right arm, from the direction of the police station. He later learned from residents that the shooter was Osama Abdel-Fattah, the head of Investigations at the Kerdasa police station. Mohamed Sayed Ahmed claims not to have seen or watched officers Ahmed Tawfik and Ahmed al-Tayeb fire at demonstrators, but rather heard about it from residents. He also claims to have witnessed officer Mohamed el-Adly, accompanied by two other policemen, open fire on Ehab Mohamed Ahmed Nasser, killing him instantly. While noting the witness Joseph left, a student, that what he saw by the cylinder included pictures of injured and Walid during the events of bleeding from it, after suffering a gunshot wound abdomen, did not identify the people alone shoot, and while what he saw is the Asaker fired, and was able to portray three sections of their terms, about 15 minutes, and added that he saw fire coming out shots from the vicinity of the section. Other witnesses gave similar testimony in which 13 defendants were identified. A 15-minute video clip also showed Youssef Yousir being shot by policemen.
