The Los Angeles Times ran a story on El-Adly Video-Gate today, and the role of bloggers in the anti-torture campaign.
Category: Blog
Detainees’ families demand investigating Giza State Security officer
Families of a number of Islamist detainees, currently held in Tora, have filed a lawsuit against police officer Wael Nour, of the Religious Activities Monitoring Unit at Giza’s State Security bureau.
The families accused the officer of torturing their detained relatives before they were transferred to Tora Prison, which resulted in severe physical injuries to several of them, including detainee El-Sayyed Mahmoud Salah, 49, who lost his hearing senses and is suffering from spinal damage, due to torture.
Wael Nour, according to the lawsuit filed under number 14366 at the Public Prosecutor’s office, threatened the detainees with extrajudicial execution if they did not “cooperate.”
The 1st Cairo Torture Film Fest
A new initiative from Egyptian bloggers. The 2007 Cairo Torture Film Fest has opened the nomination doors for its grand awards:
The Golden Whip Award: For the best police torturer
The Silver Whip Award: For the best silent court judge
The Bronze Whip Award: For the audience who are watching the movies, and still vegging
Please submit your nominations to the following blog: Kharbana ya Geda’an!