The daughter of Khairat el-Shatter, detained MB deputy Supreme Guide, is appealing to rights activists to lobby for her dad’s and husband’s release. Shatter, who’s been in police custody since mid December, is in ailing health with no access to medical treatment.
Egyptian constitution ‘worst in the world’
Egypt’s constitution is probably the “worst in the world and cannot be amended, but should be scrapped and re-written,” a group of distinguished legal experts told Al-Masry Al-Youm.
Mustafa Shehata to face administrative investigation
Police Lieutenant Mustafa Shehata who appeared in the notorious “slaps” video will be referred to an “administrative punitive board within the Giza Security Directorate,” reported Al-Masry Al-Youm. This means basically Shehata will sit in front of a bunch of fellow police officers to be judged for showering detainee Ahmad Gad with slaps (and who knows what else happened without being recorded).
The charges leveled against Shehata include employing “brute force” against a citizen in custody. Egyptian law does not recognize “torture” except if the abuse fiesta’s purpose was “extracting information.” The same goes for Police Captain Islam Nabih and Corporal Reda Fathi, who sexually abused driver Emad Kabeer in Bulaq al-Dakrour Police Station. They will face charges of “employing brute force” against a citizen, and not “torture.” Why? Because they inserted a stick up Emad’s ass for the sake of fun, and not for “extracting information.”
Al-Masry Al-Youm also reported that Shehata identified the detainee in the video clip, but accused him of being a child molester, and denied abusing him in anyway.