Monday marked the 10th anniversary of the Rabaa massacre, when Egyptian forces opened fire on a sit-in where tens of thousands of people had camped out in Cairo to protest the ouster of Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi. Human Rights Watch estimates over 900 protesters were killed in what the group has described as the “worst single-day killing of protesters in modern history.” No one has been held responsible over the past 10 years. The minister of defense at the time was Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who has ruled Egypt for nearly a decade and is a close U.S. ally. Under el-Sisi, Egypt is now jailing about 60,000 political prisoners. This is the Egyptian human rights activist Hossam Bahgat.

Hossam Bahgat: “What we are demanding right now is accountability. Individual responsibility must be assigned. And we believe, and we have learned from the experiences of other countries around the world that also live under military dictatorship, that the time for justice and the time for accountability will come.”