Bulaq torturers to be tried

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The Bulaq al-Dakrour Police Station agents involved in the sexual abuse of driver Emad Kabeer have been officially referred by the prosecutor to court, reports Al-Masry Al-Youm today.

The South Cairo Prosecutor decided yesterday that Police Captain Islam Nabih Abdel Salam Awad, 29, and Police Corporal Reda Fathi el-Sayyed Abu Fatma, 28, would face charges of torture in court on 9 January.

(Correction: Their trial is not expected to start before March, Emad’s lawyer Nasser Amin told me.)

No decision yet has been announced in the case of Lieutenant Mustafa Shehata of El-Haram Police Station (seen in action below), but Al-Masry Al-Youm said his prosecution was “imminent.”

Photographer Ahmad el-Masry also managed to photograph the torturer Islam Nabih while leaving the Prosecutor’s office yesterday:

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Government thuggery caught on video

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While the government keeps on inflaming sensationalist reports on the bogus “Muslim Brotherhood student militias,” new videos are circulating the web showing criminal thugs hired by the state, and allowed into the Ain Shams University campus, to terrorize and intimidate Free Student Union activists. The thugs were given passage by the security personnel last November, and used sticks, knives, swords and Molotov cocktails against the FSU peaceful marches.

The same scenario was repeated earlier in October, when thugs were brought into campus in a campaign of terror against activist students protesting their expulsion from the official student union elections on orders from the security.