I went to the morgue at the Alexandria General Hospital, where I saw 13 bodies of dead people - all men, young and old, but mostly young. Also visited the hospital's emergency room and saw many people who had been shot and were waiting for treatment. Live bullets seem to have been used by police yesterday evening when protesters went to attack police stations, but also by security services against people even in their own homes. One man who told me that thugs (whom he referred to as "mukhabarat", the security services) showed up at his home, accused him of throwing things at police from his windows, and shot him.Spoke to an Egyptian lawyer who saw 20 bodies at another Alexandria morgue; there's a third I haven't managed to visit yet. That makes a total of at least 33 confirmed dead here. The Egyptian government has got to rein in its security forces on the streets today.Things are very tense in Alexandria. Large protests are ongoing. The police stations appear to have all been burned. Yesterday, demonstrators tried to burn down the building of the intelligence services, but seem not to have succeeded. The army is not intervening - so far.
Peter Bouckaert, da Human Rights Watch, aqui.
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