Members of the military police stand outside the burnt Rabaa Adawiya mosque, the morning after the clearing of a protest which was held around the mosque, in Cairo, August 15, 2013 (Photo: Reuters)
A government-appointed committee tasked with investigating violence that followed the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi will present some of its findings to the president on 5 November.
The committee, formed by presidential decree in December 2013, said on Thursday that it would present reports on the deadly dispersal of pro-Morsi sit-ins at Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Nahda squares, clashes at the Republican Guard headquarters and attacks on churches.
Other findings will follow by mid-November, committee deputy leader Eskandar Ghattas told state news agency MENA.
The committee has reached decisive findings and identified those responsible in each case, he added.
The findings will not be made public, committee leader Fouad Abdel-Moneim Reyad said
After Morsi's ouster last year, his supporters staged near-daily protests and camped for nearly 40 days in two main Cairo squares. Their demonstrations often ended in clashes with security forces or opponents.
New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a 188-page report in August which described the Rabaa dispersal as "likely a crime against humanity." At least 817 were killed during the dispersal, the report said, while other estimates put the death toll at more than 1,000. Another 800 were arrested at the sit-in, the group said.
The HRW report also noted attacks on churches that followed the dispersal, and assaults on police stations.
The government said the HRW report was "biased."
In his comments on Thursday, Ghattas said their report "cannot be compared" to the HRW report, which acted as an "indictment statement" against the government rather than a report.
He said the committee's final recommendations include a call to criminalise torture and for damaged churches to be restored.
The report does not include any "political recommendations," he added.
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