Interfaith Prayer Services, Panel Discussion Scheduled to Commemorate the Rabaa Massacre

WASHINGTON – On August 14, 2013, Egyptian security forces used excessive military force in raids that decimated nearly 1,000 protestors at al-Nahda Square and Rabaa al-Adawiya Square in Cairo. These acts of violence became the internationally recognized start to a repressive crackdown on human rights and civil liberties in Egypt under Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. In addition […]

WASHINGTON – On August 14, 2013, Egyptian security forces used excessive military force in raids that decimated nearly 1,000 protestors at al-Nahda Square and Rabaa al-Adawiya Square in Cairo. These acts of violence became the internationally recognized start to a repressive crackdown on human rights and civil liberties in Egypt under Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

In addition to those killed in the raids, several thousand more were injured. Human Rights Watch called the raid “one of the world’s largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history.”

In anticipation of the two-year anniversary of the Rabaa Massacre, we invite you to join us for an interfaith prayer service in NYC and in Washington DC and a luncheon panel discussion to honor the memories of the victims of the massacre and to review human rights in Egypt since the massacre.


See below for information on all three events. Please rsvp to [email protected] or at [email protected].

WHAT:   Interfaith Prayer Service in Memory of the Victims of the Rabaa Square Massacre

WHEN:   August 11, 2015, 2:00PM

WHERE:  Christ Chapel, Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive, NY

WHO:

  • Ambassador Suzan Johnson Cook, Former U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom
  • Imam Al-Hajj Talib ‘Abdur-Rashid, Mosque of the Islamic Brotherhood
  • Ramy Shalaby, Witness to Rabaa Square Massacre

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WHEN:   August 12, 2015, 12:00-1:30 pm

WHAT:   Lunch Discussion on Human Rights Conditions in Egypt since the Rabaa Square Massacre

WHERE:  National Press Club, 529 14th Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20045

WHO:

  • Ramy Shalaby, Witness to Rabaa Square Massacre
  • Sunjeev Bery, Amnesty International USA
  • Ahmed Shehata, International Coalition for Egyptians Abroad
  • Doug Bandow, CATO Institute (invited)
  • Joseph K. Grieboski, Grieboski Global Strategies (Moderator)

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WHEN:   August 12, 2015, 7:30PM

WHAT:    Interfaith Prayer Service in Memory of the Victims of the Rabaa Square Massacre

WHERE:   Simpson Memorial Chapel, United Methodist Church Building, 100 Maryland Avenue, NE, Washington, DC

WHO:

  • Reverend Eriks Jekabsons, Latvian Lutheran Church
  • Rabbi Kenneth Cohen, Beth Israel Synagogue
  • Ramy Shalaby, Witness to Rabaa Square Massacre

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