Minister in Morsi's Government Filmed Beating Young Boy during Cairo Muslim Brotherhood Demo

Following are excerpts from an interview with an Egyptian boy, Ahmad Osama Sayyed, which aired on Tahrir TV on July 18, 2013:

Ahmad Osama Sayyed: I was walking along and saw demonstrations. People were fighting, and there were fires. I said to them: "Shame on you. you're destroying the country. To hell with Morsi."

Interviewer: That's what you said?

Ahmad Osama Sayyed: Yes. One of them chased me and gave me a kick. They started slapping me. I tried to run, but I fell to the ground. One of them punched me, and another kicked me in the side.

Interviewer: After they beat you up, what happened?

Ahmad Osama Sayyed: One of them took me away, and then another one came. He pinned me to the wall, and they started beating and kicking me again.

Interviewer: I was told that you fainted or lost consciousness.

Ahmad Osama Sayyed: Yes. One of them asked me if I had been hired by the Interior Ministry. I said: "No, I'm from another neighborhood." They kept on beating me, again and again. That's it.

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Interviewer: What did you think of the Muslim Brotherhood before this happened, and what do you think of them now?

Ahmad Osama Sayyed: I think they are barbaric.

Interviewer: That's after the incident. But before it happened, if someone said he was a Muslim Brotherhood member, what would your first impression be? Or if a friend told you that his father was a Muslim Brotherhood member...

Ahmad Osama Sayyed: I would hate him.

Interviewer: Before or after?

Ahmad Osama Sayyed: Before.

Interviewer: Even before?

Ahmad Osama Sayyed: Yes. I hate the Muslim Brotherhood.

Interviewer: Why?

Ahmad Osama Sayyed: Because they are barbaric.

Interviewer: What about Morsi?

Ahmad Osama Sayyed: I don't like him.

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Interviewer: You said that you could identify some of your attackers, and that you had seen one of them on TV beforehand.

Ahmad Osama Sayyed: That's right.

Interviewer: Who was he? The minister of investment?

Ahmad Osama Sayyed: Yes, Yahya Hamid.

Interviewer: He was one of your attackers?

Ahmad Osama Sayyed: Yes.

Interviewer: Did you recognize him after watching the video, or during the attack?

Ahmad Osama Sayyed: He was the one who grabbed me and asked if the Interior Ministry had given me a bribe. He said that I had been paid, and punched me. Then they started to beat me. He grabbed me by the shoulder, and hit me like this.

Interviewer: If you saw his picture, would you recognize him?

Ahmad Osama Sayyed: Yes.

Interviewer: Do we have the video or the picture?

Ahmad Osama Sayyed: I can recognize him from both.

Interviewer: Let's watch the video, and then we'll return.

Video of Ahmad Osama Sayyed being approached by older men, wearing surgical masks, man in striped shirt grabs him and slaps him across the back he is then taken and beaten

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Interviewer: That's him? That's Yahya Hamid?

Ahmad Osama Sayyed: Yes, that's him.

Interviewer: That's the guy?

Ahmad Osama Sayyed: Yes.

Interviewer: Now show us the other picture.

Ahmad Osama Sayyed: Yeah, that's the man.

Interviewer: That's him?

Ahmad Osama Sayyed: Yes, that's him.

Interviewer: You're referring to the guy sitting next to Morsi...

Ahmad Osama Sayyed: Yes...

Interviewer: He's the one who grabbed you and hit you.

Ahmad Osama Sayyed: Yes, that's Yahya Hamid.

Interviewer: So they brought ministers... Perhaps Yahya Hamid was angry that they kicked him out, so he went to a demonstration to beat up the children of Egypt.

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