2012 anti-Muslim Brotherhood protest in Cairo. Shawkan/Demotix. All rights reserved.
The mass protest resulting in the military coup that toppled Mohamed Morsi celebrated its second anniversary on 30 June. Two months later that year, the sit-in of Muslim Brotherhood Morsi-supporters was violently dispersed, with security forces massacring hundreds of mostly peaceful protesters. The event has been described as a crime against humanity and one of the biggest massacres in modern history.
A campaign of mass repression the likes of which Egypt has never seen followed. Not only has there been a quantitative increase in the use of physical repression, but also a qualitative change in the techniques used.
