8th anniversary of General Sisi coup in Egypt… Where is Egypt?

It has been 8 years since the 3 July 2013 coup against the first elected President Mohamed Morsi in Egypt. After the rebel demonstrations on 30 June 2013, General Abdelfattah al-Sisi gave the political parties time to come to an agreement, and then carried out a military coup on the evening of 3 July.

60 thousand political prisoners

After the revolution of January 25 (2011) within the scope of the Arab Spring in Egypt, the winds of democracy blew in the country. With the elections held in the summer of 2012, Mohammed Morsi which is the candidate of the Freedom and Justice Party became the country’s first elected President.

However, the winds of democracy were soon reversed. After just one year, a military coup took place on July 3, 2013 under the leadership of Sisi.

Immediately after the coup, the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan) Movement, especially the legitimate President Mohamed Morsi, and the supporters of democracy in the country were taken to prisons with unknown locations. Arrests were not limited to political leaders. In a short period of 3 years, 60 thousand people were arrested for political reasons. Most of them were engineers, doctors, teachers, lecturers and students.

More than 3,000 people were killed in the operations to disperse the demonstrations in Rabiah al-Adawiyah, Nahda and Ramses Square in August, right after the July coup.

8 years later…

General Abdel Fattah Sisi, whom former US President Donald Trump called “my favorite dictator“, could not find a cure for corruption and poverty in his country, and the health and poverty problems experienced in the Covid-19 pandemic, which affected the whole world, put the Egyptians on their backs. While the country’s economy has seen the lowest points during the Covid-19 pandemic process, the country is in a deadlock at many points.