During the retrial of ex-president Mohamed Morsi on charges of prison breakout, former interior minister Habib El Adly testified on court on Sunday that there were no orders issued by anyone in the Ministry of Interior to open the prisons during the 25 Jan protests in 2011, Al Ahram reports. The ex minister added that these prison breakouts were part of a ‘clear conspiracy’ to destroy the Egyptian state by Islamist groups like Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. Initially, El Adly stated that the ministry received information on 28 January that several marches were about to take place across the country, so he ordered for these marches to be controlled by unarmed personnel. However, the ministry was then “taken by surprise” after some “armed foreign elements” began to infiltrate these marches, El Adly adds. “The vehicles armed with cannons infiltrated the eastern borders and had started attacking police departments, prisons and state security buildings, which prove there was a pre-set plan to destroy the state,” he said. The former interior minister also referred to a meeting that took place in 2009 between Hamas leader Khaled Mashal and Khaled Farouk, a leading…
‘No One Issued Orders to Open Prisons in 2011’: Habib El-Adly
October 29, 2018
