CAIRO - 18 January 2023: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has ordered pardoning a number of convicts on the occasion of the Police Day and the 25th of January Revolution.
The decision no. 7 of 2023 to pardon a number of inmates has been published in the official gazette.
The 25th of January marks a historic clash between Egyptian police forces and the British Occupation forces in 1952, which was called then “Ismailia Battle.”
It took place when the Egyptian police officers refused to hand over their weapons, and evacuate the Ismailia governorate’s building.
The incident left 50 martyrs and 80 injured among Egyptian police officers.
The massacre was the spark of the revolution that ended the monarchy in Egypt on July 23 of the same year.
Meanwhile, the January revolution in 2011 marks the ousting of former President Hosni Mubarak, which then resulted in holding democratic elections the next year.
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