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45. Copts discontented over Maspero fact-finding panel report

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Year: 
2011
Week: 
44
Article number: 
45
Article pages: 
1
Date of source: 
November 4, 2011
Author: 
'Abd al-Wahāb Sha'bān
Reviewer: 
‘Amr al-Misrī
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Coptic activists expressed discontent over a report by the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR)'s fact-finding commission over the October 9 incidents in the area of Maspero which left dozens killed or wounded.

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Najīb Jabrā'īl, head of the Egyptian Union of Human Rights Organizations, said that the NCHR report's description of the bullets fired by the armed forces as "dummy" lacks technical validation by the criminal labs and forensics.

Kamāl Zākhir Mūsá, the coordinator of the Coptic laymen front, said that the current scene requires a transparent investigation in order to upset the schemes by some persons calling for an international investigation.

The NCHR, in a report on the incidents, had said that the army has not used live ammunition and added that some of the demonstrators have pelted stones at the army soldiers while others carried swords, switchblades and knives.

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