Egyptian teen protester dies in police custody

A teenage protester has died of the injuries he sustained during an attack by security forces while in police custody in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.

Reports say Hassan Nadi, 15, died in the Bassatin police station in southern Cairo’s Maadi area, after being denied treatment.

The Egyptian teenager was injured after clashes broke out during a demonstration marking the first anniversary of the notorious Rabaa massacre.

On August 14, 2013, after then army chief and current President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi ousted Egypt’s first freely-elected president, Mohamed Morsi, the security forces launched a brutal crackdown on thousands of Morsi supporters at protest camps in Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda squares, killing hundreds of civilians.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released on Tuesday that the assault was “one of the largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history.”

The death of the teenager comes just days after clashes erupted between security forces and the supporters of ousted Morsi in Cairo on August 15. More than 10 people have been killed in the protests.

Egypt has been the scene of anti-government protests with continuous clashes between security forces and the supporters of Morsi since his ouster in July last year.

Rights groups say the government crackdown on the supporters of Morsi has left over 1,400 people. At least 15,000 have been jailed.

Hundreds of the former president’s supporters have so far been sentenced to death or long prison terms.