Mohamed Ibrahim Moustafa
Mohamed Youssef Ibrahim | |
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Major General | |
Unit | Egyptian National Police |
Commands held | Mokattam Police District El Minya City Police Sharqeyya Police Directorate Directorate of Prisons |
Mohamed Ibrahim Moustafa, often referred to simply as Mohamed Ibrahim (
Career
Ibrahim has worked for the Interior Ministry in several roles. At one point he was an assistant minister for the prisons department.[1]
He succeeded Ahmed Gamal El Din to take a place in the Qandil Cabinet in January 2013.[2] He attracted criticism after police violence against anti-Morsi protests at the main Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in Cairo.[1]
Mohamed Ibrahim was one of the ministers who kept his cabinet place after the
On 26 July 2013 Mohamed Ibrahim told
August 2013 Egyptian raids
On 14 August 2013, police under the command of Ibrahim
On 10 December, thirteen Egyptian and international human rights organizations urged Cairo's interim authorities to probe the mass killing of protesters in the capital on August 14. The joint call, issued by organizations that included Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, said an investigation must be launched into the killing of "up to 1,000 people by security forces" almost four months ago when they dispersed sit-ins by supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi. "There can be no hope for the rule of law and political stability in Egypt, much less some modicum of justice for victims, without accountability for what may be the single biggest incident of mass killing in Egypt's recent history," said Gasser Abdel-Razak, associate director at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights. "As a first step toward accountability, the government should establish an effective independent fact-finding committee to investigate responsibility throughout the chain of command for the unlawful killings," the rights groups said. They said that on August 14 a "small minority of protesters used firearms... but the police responded excessively by shooting recklessly, going far beyond what is permitted under international law." "After the unprecedented levels of violence and casualties seen since the ousting of Mohamed Morsi, investigations must provide real answers and cannot be another whitewash of the security forces' record," Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui of Amnesty International said in the statement. "Egypt's authorities cannot deal with the carnage through PR in world's capitals, rewriting events and locking up Morsi's supporters." The groups also said the probe should determine whether there is any evidence of a policy to kill protesters or commit other serious crimes.[9]
Assassination attempt
On 5 September 2013, a car bomb detonated in Ibrahim's convoy as it traveled through Nasr City. Ibrahim was unharmed, but more than 21 people were injured, with one of the injured dying on 6 September.[10] Egyptian Islamic Jihad denied that it was the perpetrator of the attack, stating that it stopped using bombings as a method during the rule of Hosni Mubarak.[11] A jihadist group named Ansar Bait al-Maqdis claimed responsibility.[12]
References
- ^ a b PM Beblawi and his cabinet, BBC News, 16 July 2013. Accessed 26 July 2013.
- ^ Ethar Shalaby, Ten new ministers take oath in Cabinet reshuffle, Daily News Egypt, 6 January 2013.
- ^ Who's Who: Egypt's Full Interim Cabinet
- ^ Hend Kortam and Rana Muhammad Taha, Egypt’s new interim cabinet, Daily News Egypt, 18 July 2013.
- ^ Pro-Mursi vigils to be brought to an end: Egypt interior minister, Reuters, 26 July 2013.
- ^ Egypt interior ministry blames Brotherhood for Cairo violence, Al Arabiya, 27 July 2013.
- ^ Youth movement calls for removal of interior minister, Al Jazeera English, 27 July 2013. Accessed 27 July 2013.
- ^ USA. "Egypt: Security Forces Used Excessive Lethal Force | Human Rights Watch". Hrw.org. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
- ^ "Rights groups urge probe of mass killing in Egypt - Politics - Egypt - Ahram Online". English.ahram.org.eg. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
- ^ "UPDATED: One dead after Thursday's bomb attack in Cairo". Ahram Online. 6 September 2013. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
- ^ "Islamic Jihad denies connection with interior minister assassination attempt". Egypt Independent. 5 September 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
- ^ "Jihadist group claims responsibility for interior minister assassination attempt". Egypt Independent. 8 September 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2013.