Youssef Seddik (officer)

Youssef Seddik (Arabic: يوسف صديق, often spelt Yusuf Sadik or Yusef el-Sadiq) (January 3, 1910 – March 31, 1975)[1][2] was an Egyptian military figure and politician.

Seddik had been a member of a Communist organisation, the Democratic Movement for National Liberation (DMNL), when the Free Officers requested his membership.

However, Seddik quickly began expressing opposition to many of the RCC's decisions, especially the execution of two Communist workers who incited strikes in factories in Kafr el-Dawwar in August 1952.

I could not possibly allow myself to go down in history as someone who had remained a member of a Council that abolished civil liberties, sentenced workers to death and placed patriots in jail.

"[5] Egyptian President Anwar Sadat gave Seddik a state pension when he came to power in 1970 and also sent him for medical treatment in Moscow.