Gov’t report on post-June 30 violence to be publicly released

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi asked the June 30 official fact-finding committee to present its conclusions to the public before sending them to him, according to the committee’s head.

A report by EgyNews quoted Fouad Abdel Moneim Riyad as saying that the president had met with the committee this week and asked for the findings to be made public. “We don’t want anything to be concealed,” Sisi said.

The report will be concluded within a week, and the findings made public during a press conference in the committee’s headquarters at the Shura Council, Riyad said. The committee’s deadline is November 21, as per a presidential decree.

The report will include a section on terrorism, in relation to religious discourse and incitement.

Last February, the committee’s spokesperson, Amr Marwan, said that the findings would be sent to the president before being made public.

In December, Minister of Transitional Justice, Mohamed Amin al-Mahdi, requested the formation of a committee to investigate all of the violent incidents that occurred after the June 30 mass protests that ultimately led to the ouster of former President Mohamed Morsi.

These incidents include the deadly clashes in front of the Republican Guards headquarters, the fatal violence that occurred during the mid-August dispersals of the pro-Morsi Al-Manassa, Rabea al-Adaweya and Nahda Square protest camps, the burning of churches, violence on university campuses, assassinations, attempts to block the Suez Canal and violence in Sinai.

Riyad had previously urged human rights organizations not to blame the committee for being unable to release its findings to the media, saying there wasn’t the political will to do so.