After a long silence that sparked controversy and question, the Egyptian Public Prosecution announced that it is investigating the killing of Egyptian citizen Awais Al-Rawi by a police officer last week.

But it seems that the prosecution’s statement sparked more controversy than its silence previously did, and it increased the ambiguity of the Egyptian authorities ’position regarding the incident, as the statement presented the account of the security forces that accused the narrator of terrorism and confronting the police with weapons, which sparked a wave of anger on social media, and prompted two tweeters to accuse The prosecution tried to acquit the killer and discredit the victim

Activists launched a hashtag entitled (# Owais_Rawi) issued on communication sites, in which thousands of tweeters denounced the prosecution's statement, and accused the police of following the same traditional methods of turning the victim into an accused.

The narrator was killed by a police officer during security raids on the village of Awamiya in Luxor, southern Egypt, during the police attempt to confront the wave of demonstrations that began on September 20, in response to the call of the actor and contractor Mohamed Ali, to demand the departure of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.

The narrator turned into an icon of this popular movement, after tweeters shared the story of his death after he refused to insult his father by the police, while others said that he refused to arrest his brother.

Controversial statement

In the controversial statement, the Egyptian Public Prosecution said that it had authorized the police forces to arrest the narrator and others from his family for questioning them regarding terrorist crimes attributed to them, in light of the findings of the investigations of the National Security Sector.

The statement added that the prosecution learned of his death "after he tried to resist the police force with an automatic firearm, which was seized next to his body in order to prevent the execution of the permission."

The prosecution explained that it had questioned the victim’s brother and the police officer, the head of the commission, in addition to listening to the testimony of the deceased’s father, adding that “it became apparent from this that the statements of the three of them differed about the circumstances of the incident of death. Truth".

The prosecution was keen to confirm the incorrectness of what was reported by social media about the circumstances of the incident, and said that the father of the deceased had denied during the prosecution investigations any assault on him by the officers.

The prosecutor’s statement comes after human rights defenders denounced her delay in dealing with the incident. Director of the Arab Network for Human Rights Information, Gamal Eid, said that “the lives of Egyptians deserve a statement, investigation, transparency and information, and the officers are not above accountability,” describing the situation of justice in Egypt as “not good.”

The Egyptian Social Democratic Party condemned, in a statement issued a few days ago, what it described as "the silence of the Egyptian authorities to comment on the death of the citizen Awais Al-Rawi in the village of Awamiya at the hands of an Egyptian police officer."

Tense and anticipation

This comes while tension is still hanging over the city of Luxor, amid observers expecting things to slide into a clash again between the people and the security forces, following the collapse of an agreement between security leaders and family heads in the city - which is famous like most parts of Upper Egypt in southern Egypt for the emergence of tribalism. Sources told Al Jazeera Net that the agreement was Order the release of the sons of Awamiya, who were arrested in connection with previous and subsequent demonstrations in the killing of the narrator.

Among the indications of the collapse of the agreement, according to Al-Jazeera Net correspondent

Abdullah Hamed, the

lack of official confirmation of reports that spoke about the arrest of the officer and his referral to trial, while human rights activists and political observers indicated the danger of this neglect, as a negative message could reach the people of Luxor.

In the same context, last Sunday, the Supreme State Security Prosecution office appeared in Cairo, last Sunday, 15 citizens of Luxor governorate, who had been detained for 15 days pending investigations against the backdrop of the protests of September 20, on charges of joining a group established in contravention of the provisions of the law and the constitution, and demonstrating without permission, among them More than one brother from one family.

The continued arrest of Luxor demonstrators represents a further crack in the agreement that was to release detainees pending protest cases, according to observers.

Local sources revealed in press statements that a number of tribal sheikhs met the family of the dead young man to calm the state of anger and defuse the protests, and efforts were successful in persuading his family to open the family's event house to receive condolences, and to break all protests, and resort to the Egyptian judiciary to demand legal retribution through a judicial complaint that will be filed. Family days after the mourning.

There is a fear among the citizens of Luxor that the rare news that has been leaked about the trial of the officer accused of murder is a truce, with no shadow, in fact.

The page of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, headed by the human rights defender Hafez Abu Saada, a member of the National Council for Human Rights (governmental), was alone in the news that the killer had been referred to the prosecution.

The organization called on the Public Prosecutor to quickly investigate this incident and refer those who are found criminally responsible for this "crime" to trial so that it "is a deterrent to anyone who is begging him to assassinate any simple Egyptian citizen's right to life, and so that such violations are not repeated again because they violate the most basic rights." The basic human being, which is the right to life, "as well as showing the facts before the Egyptian public opinion.

Social networking sites were ignited with controversy and questions about the prosecution's statement, which some considered an attempt to absolve the police of the killing of Awais al-Rawi.

Tweeters demanded pressure and media escalation of the issue so that the narrator’s blood would not be wasted, as happened with similar cases, and some of them confirmed that the narrator is Khaled Saeed Hirak "September 20," in reference to the late activist Khaled Saeed, who was killed by the Egyptian police and his death turned into a spark for " January Revolution 2011.

How often we said, even if you prefer to sit in your house, you will be arrested or you will be killed, and then you will remain the perpetrator, Egypt has reached a stage of injustice over which it has not passed throughout its history, and I say it and I am still frustrated, the more they are wronged the more their end approaches ... # Awais_the narrator is the culprit, oh country

- Emad Al-Beheiry (@EmadAlbeheery) October 7, 2020

And as if the eyes of Bin Owais are asking us sarcastically. Is there no man or wife among you who is able to open the lock for most of the soul of his parents, Owais? !!! # Owais_Rawi pic.twitter.com/iRDnuway3c

- Salah Eldein El Ayuobi (@EldeinEl) October 7, 2020

They killed you treacherously, and your memory of the fragrance lives among us and reminds us that life without dignity has no meaning for it, may God have mercy, Owais, the narrator # Owais_Rawi pic.twitter.com/RbLM0BPXwP

- Pharaon (@ Pharaon47101420) October 7, 2020

The father of Aweys added: The officers were Shailinwa from the ground, Shell, and Bignoloa, life is good for those who ride it # Owais_Rawi pic.twitter.com/3IDLbGY5R3

- Dr Rabi3 (@ Dr_rabi33) October 7, 2020

# Owais_Rawi The


difference between us and the Americans who came to protest the killing of George Floyd, and when


we danced on the body of Aweys,


it is an inhumane military government team that has worked on the anonymity and misleading of the people for 70 years and is still worse. # Owais_Rawi pic.twitter.com/46Cqzq0pbJ

- Moataz Bin El-Nil ✋ (@ahmedmoatazoo) October 7, 2020

The Egyptian police killed # Owais_al-Nari because he defended his father ...


then terrorized his father and forced him to forgo his son's blood!

Your eyes slept while the dark was attentive ..


He prayed for you, and God appointed you

,

you did not sleep!

pic.twitter.com/dtp1SokAS1

- Towards Freedom (@hureyaksa) October 7, 2020