TURKISH HACKERS LEAVE RABAA MEMORIAL MESSAGE ON CAIRO AIRPORT WEBSITE

Egyptian security forces deployed in front of the Al-Azhar Islamic University in Cairo, Egypt, on Wednesday, October 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Ahmed Abd El Latef, El Shorouk)

Cairo, 29 Shawal 1436/14 August 2015 (MINA) – The official website of Cairo International Airport was taken over by a group of hackers commemorating the dispersal of the Rabaa sit-in in 2013 for several hours on Friday morning.

The website was attacked by Turkish hacking team “AkinCilar” on the second anniversary of the 2013 Rabaa masacre that killed thousands of Mohammed Morsi supporter in Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square and the smaller in Nahda Square. They were both in Giza.

For several hours, users of the site were redirected to a second page showing the “R4BIA” symbol that has been used by Morsi’s supporters to commemorate the dispersal. Messages on the page in Arabic , English and Turkish called the dispersal “a crime against humanity” and vowed not to stop until “attaining vengeance.”

The yellow symbol, an image of a hand raising four fingers, represents resistance to, and memory of the forcibly dispersal of the sit-ins in 2013. The sign is considered by Egyptian security forces as a symbol of incitement against the army and police.

According to the National Council for Human Rights a total of 632 people were killed during the forcibly dispersal, including eight police officers. The dispersal also left 1,492 injured and saw 800 people arrested, according to the report.(T/R04/R03)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)