Minister of Defence Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has testified in the trial of police officials accused of destroying documents at the State Security Apparatus in 2011.
The trial is taking place at the police academy in New Cairo. Journalists were asked to leave the courtroom during El-Sisi's testimony.
Hassan Abdel-Rahman, former head of the now-disbanded State Security Apparatus, is accused of ordering the destruction of state security documents in the aftermath of the January 25 Revolution. Forty police officials are accused of destroying the documents.
The armed forces seized control of state security buildings across the country in early March 2011 after revolutionaries stormed the state security headquarters in Cairo and Alexandria to uncover evidence of atrocities committed by the repressive apparatus.
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