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Police officers stand in front of a police station damaged after being set ablaze in August by supporters of former president Mohamed Morsi in Kerdasa (File photo: Reuters) Cairo - Asharq Al-Awsat
The Egyptian authorities executed nine men convicted of murder in the 2013 Kerdasa attack on a police station.
The nine men were among 20 defendants sentenced to death in the assault case which left 15 people dead, including 11 policemen.
According to the investigations, the convicts, most of whom are members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group, stormed the Kerdasa police station after security forces dispersed camps of the supporters of former President Mohammed Morsi in Rabaa, Cairo, and el-Nahda in Giza.
Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel s diplomatic reporter
In this Jan. 25, 2011 file photo, demonstrators deface a poster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Alexandria, Egypt. (AP Photo)
Ten years ago, in late 2010 and early 2011, the Arab world experienced a series of convulsions that tore apart the Middle East as we knew it. Starting in Tunisia, where a young fruit vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire to protest corruption and police abuse, angry demonstrations spread throughout the region. Some of the world’s longest-ruling leaders were toppled within months. There was a sense of optimism, that the long-suffering citizens of Arab nations were finally rising up to demand basic human rights and dignity in secular, youth-led popular uprisings.
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