The Interior Ministry should stop hassling reporters and instead investigate the systematic torture happening within Egyptian police stations, nine local human rights organizations told General Habib el-Adly today in a joint statement.
The rights watchdogs denounced the harassment Al-Jazeera reporter Howeida Taha is facing for attempting to do a documentary on torture in Egypt’s and Arab prisons.
In other developments, Al-Masry Al-Youm reported today the Nadim Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence has sent General Adly a letter with the names of 189 police officers involved in torture cases demanding their investigation. The detailed list, put together by the anti-torture clinic, included also the police stations these officers work at, the names and dates of some of the victims they tortured.