Egypt security forces’ failure to stop protest deaths ‘suspicious’

Headline Title: Egypt security forces’ failure to stop protest deaths ‘suspicious’ 03 July 2013 Egyptian police and security forces are failing to protect protesters and bystanders from violence amid the country’s political strife, Amnesty International said today, on the brink of the army’s threatened intervention to resolve the crisis. According to evidence gathered by Amnesty International researchers in Egypt, security forces have not been intervening or have been despatched too late to stop violence during the clashes. Violence between opponents and supporters of President Morsi…

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