Egypt’s State Information Service (SIS) condemned on Tuesday a report released by international watchdog Human Rights Watch on the violent dispersal of two encampments set up in support of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi last August. The government body described the 195-page report, released by HRW on Tuesday after a year-long investigation, as “negative and biased,” in a statement by the SIS. “The report ignored operations against Egypt at the hands of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group in 2013,” the SIS statement read. The report, entitled “All According to Plan: The Rabaa Massacre and Mass Killings of Protesters in Egypt,” accused Egypt’s security personnel of “systematically” killing at least 1,150 pro-Mursi protesters in July and August 2013. It added that such killings “probably amount to crimes against humanity.” Egypt’s SIS accused HRW of “ignoring” that the first fatality during the dispersal of the pro-Mursi Rabaa Al-Adawiya encampment was a policeman. “The policeman was speaking to protesters through a microphone to direct them to a safe exit out of the protest area when he was shot dead,” the statement read. In a report on Rabaa’s dispersal released in mid-March, the state-affiliated…
