I got hold of some rare photos of the famous February 1986 Interior Ministry’s Central Security Forces conscripts mutiny. Mubarak had to call in the army to smash the uprising.
It was the third time in modern Egyptian history that army tanks swarmed through the capital, after the 1952 coup and the 1977 Bread Intifada.
Journalist Liam Stack has a piece today in DSE about the torture debate in Egypt. One thing that intrigued me in the article was one NDP apologist, Hussein Amin, who defended the regime in an interview:
He says he has seen videos of interns being tortured in Abu Ghraib in Iraq as well as photos of political prisoners abused in Guantanamo.
“If the Americans treat prisoners this way, I think that Egyptians take that as a model.”
Thanks America.