Abdul Karim Salim - Cairo
The administration of the Omar Makram mosque in Tahrir Square (central Cairo) refused to allow the sister of the icon of the January 25, 2011 revolution, Khalid Said, to receive solace in her mother's house in the banquet hall attached to the mosque.
Mrs. Leila Marwan died in the United States after suffering from cancer two days ago and was buried in Philadelphia.
The two policemen, Mahmud Salah Mahmoud and Awad Ismail Suleiman, were charged with arresting Khaled Sa'id, aged 28, without justification in an Internet cafeteria in Alexandria, beating him and torturing him to death in June 2010.
The killing of Khaled Said by the policemen led to a wave of congestion in the Egyptian street, making observers consider it one of the most important reasons for the revolution of January 25, a page was created on the social networking site Facebook entitled "We are all Khaled Said," which was launched after The first calls for the revolution and overthrow the regime of former President Hosni Mubarak.
| Two police officers arrested Khaled Said from a cafe in Alexandria and tortured him to death. |
This is not the first time that the mosque administration has refused to offer condolences to families and friends of activists on various pretexts.
Over the past few weeks, Omar Karam mosque has witnessed crowds of prominent politicians and activists in successive rallies of media and political figures, the last of whom was Al-Jazeera journalist Hanan Kamal.
Last Ramadan, a group of activists from the Swiss club on the Corniche of the Nile called for a group believed to be affiliated with the security services to attack a political breakfast table. Some of them are now imprisoned, including engineer Yehia Hussein Abdel Hadi.