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This piece was first published on the BBC News website: – – – There have been allegations that officials at Cairo’s Zeinhom mortuary have been doctoring autopsy reports to cover up suspicious deaths, despite claims from the country’s police force that it no longer shoots protesters. The stench is the first thing that hits you as you enter Cairo’s Zeinhom mortuary. The air, already thick with the stifling heat of the day, fills with the smell of blood and chemicals. In […]

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In this essay for BBC Radio 4′s From Our Own Correspondent, I discuss the resource crisis plaguing Egypt’s morgues and forensic facilities, and its heartbreaking implications for those who visit. The audio begins at 16:45.

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This piece was originally published by the Christian Science Monitor: – – – The police have withdrawn from the streets of the Suez Canal city of Port Said, and in the el-Sharq police station, officers in civilian clothes huddle around their weapons, waiting for an attack. Egypt’s police are under assault as representatives of a state and a security apparatus that, protesters say, remains brutal and unreformed two years after change was demanded in Tahrir Square. El-Sharq’s officers say they feel […]

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