A man injured during the January uprising has accused three policemen – including a captain – of forcing him to withdraw a lawsuit he filed against them.
The injured man, Mohamed Ali, said in a report to the Interior Ministry that the policemen kidnapped and threatened him in order to make him withdraw the lawsuit.
Ali told Al-Masry Al-Youm he was shot on 28 January. After recovering, he decided to file the lawsuit.
“We woke up to heavy shooting at 6 am outside my house. They broke in, tied me with a rope and insulted my mother, then took me to one of their apartments,” he said, describing the officers' coercion.
“They forced me to sign a paper stating that I should withdraw the lawsuit I filed against them,” he said, adding that he has been protesting in Tahrir Square along with several other families of the revolution's victims.
He said the sit-in would not end until these policemen were brought to trial.
Many families of the revolution's martyrs have spoken to media outlets about pressure they claim to have been exposed to as a means of forcing them to withdraw lawsuits filed against officers accused of killing their relatives.
Activists have strongly criticized the speed of trials for those accused of involvement with killing protesters.
Several courts have ordered the postponement of police officers' trials, leading to mass rallies in July that called for swifter trials.
Translated from the Arabic Edition
