Music has been used in American military prisons and on bases to induce sleep deprivation, “prolong capture shock,” disorient detainees during interrogations—and also drown out screams. Based on a leaked interrogation log, news reports, and the accounts of soldiers and detainees, Mother Jones put together a list of some of the songs that guards and interrogators chose.
Year: 2008
Testimonies from Kafr Elw
The Torture in Egypt Blog compiled testimonies from Kafr Elw’s residents, on the assaults they faced from Mubarak’s pigs.
Labor updates
The Egyptian Workers and Trade Unions Watch issued two reports, one on the protests by fish merchants in Suez, and the other on the downtown Cairo protests by 10th of Ramadan workers.
Also the Tadamon blog posted a solidarity call from the light bulbs manufacturing factory workers, owned by the Lebanese Egyptian tycoon Rami Lakkah, who are fighting for social insurance, and El-Badeel ran a report on escalating militancy among the northern fishermen, who are organizing a national conference next month.