The Egyptian police brutality videos scandal is snowballing. Rights lawyer Nasser Amin told Al-Masry Al-Youm that he was close to identifying the woman who appeared in one of the police brutality videos, getting whipped by a plainclothes police official. Amin said the woman worked for the Egyptian State TV & Radio, and that the torture incident happened in one of Cairo’s police stations. The torturer, according to Amin, is a police corporal.

Al-Masry Al-Youm also provided more details about the current investigation into Emad Kabeer’s torture case, where Officer Islam Nabih and Corporal Reda Fathi are being charged with abuse. Prosecutor Bakr Ahmad Bakr requested the technical expertise of an Egyptian State TV official who looked into the videos. The official testified that the torture videos circulated by the bloggers were authentic, neither fabricated nor montaged. Up on hearing that, Officer Islam Nabih tried to assault the technical expert inside the prosecutor’s office, Al-Masry Al-Youm reported!!!

Meanwhile, Lieutenant Mustafa Shehata of El-Haram Police Station (Seen in action below) continues to perform his duties with all devotion in Giza, having escaped suspension from work due to his strong connections in General Habib el-Adly’s Interior Ministry, as Wael Abdel Fattah of Al-Fagr reported.