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An Egyptian citizen set himself on fire in Tahrir Square on Thursday, according to a live video broadcast on his Facebook page, before the broadcast ended with setting his body on fire.
The man, an employee named Muhammad Hosni, said Egyptian authorities persecuted him and destroyed his family after he returned to the state looting money.
The man threatened to burn himself when security soldiers in the plaza approached him and poured a large amount of gasoline on his clothing, highlighting his refusal to be escorted back to “National Security.”
An employee of the Central Audit Agency is burned in the air immediately after revealing the corruption of the system.
Will distracted people wake up from coma after this citizen sacrificed his life for him? #Tahrir Square pic.twitter.com/i8iANL0Lyl– mohamed abdelrahman👈 (@ mohamed23404202) November 12, 2020
Hosni complained during the video clip that circulates on communication platforms about his economic and living conditions. As a result of their attempts to uncover “corruption and the lack of justice,” he said.
He said he was “being harassed by the Interior Ministry, which tried to fabricate cases for him, in response to the discovery of corruption involving senior officials and businessmen in the country.
He criticized “the lack of justice in Egypt, which led to his dismissal from his job, and the investigation with him by National Security (an internal intelligence service affiliated with the Egyptian Interior Ministry, formerly known as State Security),” noting that it is not affiliated with the group of “Muslim Brotherhood”, which generally The Egyptian regime accuses opponents or critics of the conditions of the country’s membership of it, and the regime classifies it as a terrorist group.
The security forces tried to arrest him, but he threatened to set him on fire after pouring gasoline on his body, and began chanting slogans, including: “Oh our country, hospice … stay a little thief … your ruler is a thief … God is my enough and the agent is good. “
Social media accounts circulated other video clips, which they said were of the man as he burned.
“They will tell me brothers … I am the one who defends this country,” an angry citizen shouts at me #Tahrir Square Rejection of injustice and corruption, as he put it pic.twitter.com/AtmOedc3zb
– Al Jazeera Egypt (@AJA_Egypt) November 12, 2020
He added that he was fired from his job and prosecuted by National Security for that, and that £ 25 million was returned to the state, which he exposed in corruption cases.
“Mohamed hosny” sets himself on fire after reporting fraud regarding the bank where he worked, prompting officials to want to convict him. He was denouncing the injustice that his country was exploiting.#Tahrir Square
– Jacob Morris (@Jacobmorrris) November 12, 2020
Shortly after appointing government officials and calling #Egypt like a “country of thieves” #Mohamed_Hosny it catches fire in the middle of
Tahrir Square, Egypt#Tahrir Square pic.twitter.com/lkn4lQzrlo– Jacob Morris (@Jacobmorrris) November 12, 2020
Egypt’s Interior Ministry did not issue any statement or statement about the incident, while the Health Ministry did not issue any comment on his health status.
Twitter users on social media compared the incident to the incident in which the young Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in December 2010, which was the spark that ignited the revolution in Tunisia, which spread to revolutions in other countries known as the “revolutions of the Arab Spring”.
Oh our homeland, oh hospice, you guard a little thief 😥
The man you wanted on the same day in Tahrir Square Boycott of French Products 16 pic.twitter.com/GZJDLdMmxQ– moo Ideana (@moo_ideana) November 12, 2020
Video of the Egyptian citizen who burned himself in Tahrir Square 😔😔 pic.twitter.com/BNMvrmW2Ly
– Noha Abdo (@ NohaAbd02779097) November 12, 2020
Activists describe Tahrir Square as an icon of the January 25, 2011 revolution. It witnessed a sit-in by hundreds of thousands of protesters for about two weeks; It ended with the removal of former President Hosni Mubarak.
Egypt was ranked 106th in the Index of Countries Fighting Corruption for 2019, which includes 180 countries, and is published by Transparency International.
Egyptians generally complain about high prices due to “economic austerity measures”, in contrast to official rumors that the measures are aimed at improving economic conditions under difficult living conditions.
In July 2019, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said: “Studies said that the poverty rate could exceed 10 percent, but social protection programs (for the poor) reported 4 percent to them, and this is a tremendous achievement. “
At the time, a government report revealed that in the year 2017-2018 the poverty rate in Egypt reached around 32.5 percent, compared with 27.8 percent in 2015-2016, an increase of the 4.7 percent.
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