CAIRO: Some 28 families of victims and those who were injured during Egypt’s January 25 Revolution will receive residential units in the 6 of October City in Giza, Ministry of Housing announced Friday.
The residential units are part of a 1,000 housing-unit allotment approved in December 2014 during a meeting between Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab and the National Council for the Care of Martyrs’ Families and Injured.
Thousands of Egyptians took to the streets to demand more social justice and political rights during the25 January 2011 Revolution. With Mubarak stepping down on 11 February, 2011, at least 846 people were killed and 6,467 others were injured, according to the Health Ministry.
Established in 2011, the state-owned council is tasked with providing care for the families with causalities caused by violence or clashes erupted from January 25 to March 24, 2011. The council has studied the status of those who applied as revolution causalities to prove their eligibility.
Some 814 victims and 6275 injured were determined eligible by the council, according to head Sayed Abu el-Beeh in statements to Veto Gate in December 2014. In the interview, Beeh said that “families of 777 martyrs as well as 5600 injured have received their financial compensation;” the family of each victim has received 100,000 EGP (US $13,000) while families of injured people have received 5000 EGP each.
Additional reporting by Ahmed Hassan