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Blogger interrogated; released on bail

Posted on By 3arabawy

The Abbassiya Prosecutor interrogated today blogger Amr Gharbeia on charges of libel, part of the crackdown on the blogosphere orchestrated by Judge Abdel Fattah Murad. The interrogation lasted for two hours and half, after which Amr was released on a LE200 bail.

Blogger Amr Gharbeia المدون عمرو غربية

The prosecutor tried to force Amr into handing out the IP addresses of readers who posted comments on his blog, but Amr rightly refused.

The interrogation will be resumed next Tuesday with Amr, together with leftist lawyers Gamal Eid and Ahmad Seif el-Islam, against whom Judge Murad is trying to fabricate charges of blackmail.

Leftist lawyers Gamal Eid and Ahmad Seif el-Islam

MB detainee tortured in Kafr el-Zayat

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From Ikhwan Web:

The State Security Police in Kafr Al-Zayat, Gharbiya, added more to the Egyptian violations to human rights after State Security Officer Walid Ammar tortured a Muslim Brotherhood detainee this week using electric shocks and beating till he became deaf in one of his ears.
The State Security Police in Kafr Al-Zayat detained citizen Lotfi Muhammad Khalifa on May, 16, 2007 under the pretext that he possesses tapes of sheikh Amin Al Dib. He appeared before Basyoun prosecution that ordered him jailed for 15 days .
Although he was under prosecution custody, but he was detained in Basyoun police centre’s prison where officer Walid Ammar and Basyoun police chief, Tamer, continued torturing him for six full days. They were, starting from 12.00 midnight till 4.00AM, torturing him with electric shocking and beating, till he became deaf in one of his ears.
After six days of torture, he was moved to Tanta public prison on Monday, May 21, 2007, and he is currently in prison in a very deteriorated state of health.