Adel Emara

Who is Adel Emara?

General Adel Emara is an Egyptian general. He is Deputy Defence Minister of Egypt, and a member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces which has ruled Egypt since the resignation of Hosni Mubarak in February 2011.

On 19 December 2011 Adel Emara held a press conference in which he justified army violence against protestors in Egypt, and blamed "evil forces [which] wanted to drag Egypt into a chaos, putting army into confrontation with the people." Responding to a journalist demanding the army apologize to Egyptian women for brutality towards female protestors, he interrupted the conference to read an intelligence brief claiming that "unknown assailants were planning to set the Parliament on fire" that day.