Fathi Abul Ezz produced this cartoon of Bulaq al-Dakrour Police Station Captain Islam Nabih, who is to stand in court facing charges of torturing and sexually abusing driver Emad Kabeer.
Photographer Ahmad el-Masry had exclusively photographed the officer while leaving the Prosecutor’s office last week.
UPDATE: Torture in Egypt blog has designed a banner, with Islam’s face, calling for prosecution of torturers.
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:
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.
