Tag: سيد بلال

Cairo’s Torturer in Chief

Posted on By 3arabawy

A new MoI reshuffle today saw the promotion of a notorious torturer. Major General Hussein Mohamed Sami Bilal is a veteran officer of the State Security Police. He served as the State Security’s Alexandria division officer, responsible for monitoring Salafi activities in 2011. In that role, he was involved in the torture and death of Sayed Bilal (no family relation), a 30-year-old Salafi man who died in custody in January 2011, shortly before the outbreak of the revolution.

Hussein Bilal reportedly left the country sometime after the revolution to work with security forces in the UAE, returning after the 2013 military coup. He then resumed his security career, rising through the ranks of the rebranded Homeland Security apparatus. Bilal held top security posts in Ismailia and Alexandria governorates before being appointed to run Cairo’s Homeland Security branch last week.

Piggipedia: SS Lt. Colonel Hani Talaat رائد أمن الدولة هاني طلعت

Posted on By 3arabawy
From SS Officers

I haven’t had proper time to continue working on the Piggipedia files, but here is a face which popped up while I was reading some articles about torture, and I recalled having more pictures of the same officer on the SS Nasr City DVDs.

From SS Officers

SS Lt. Colonel Hani Talaat, also known as “Gaafar,” worked at the dissolved SS, as part of its “Central Investigations Unit.” His name was mentioned in the case of Sayyed Bilal’s death under torture, and reportedly still keeps his job at Homeland Security, the successor of SS.

From SS Officers

SCAF and Essam Sharaf’s cabinet under fire

Posted on By 3arabawy

[Video removed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtLBxpLJ8ck]

As the Tahrir occupation continues, PM Essam Sharaf made a public speech on Saturday evening, whereby he

…ordered the suspension of police accused of killing protesters during the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak.
Essam Sharaf also said a panel would be created to speed up court cases against them and those accused of corruption.

Earlier in the day, the prosecutor general ordered the re-arrest of head of Suez police and two secret policemen, while in Alexandria the prosecutor ordered the arrest and interrogation of 12 police officers involved in the torture and killing of Sayed Bilal, the salafi young man who was wrongly accused by the State Security Police in January of blowing up the Two Saints Church in Alexandria.

But as always, the government’s “concessions” are vague and meaningless. No names of officers were announced, no transparency, no public trials, no mention of Suzan or Omar Suleiman, and nothing said re the national minimum wage. And of course nothing re halting the military tribunals. Nothing concrete at all. And while promising one of the biggest “restructuring moves” in the history of the interior ministry by mid July, Sharaf’s interior minister, General Mansour el-Essawi, went on Al-Hayat channel, describing the use of the word “purge” as a “silly”.

[Video removed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejvDEkWytVs]

Sharaf’s speech doesn’t assure anyone. The protests continue as of time of writing, and in Tahrir Square already thousands are marching demanding Sharaf’s immediate resignation.

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While in Suez, tens of thousands of the city residents are now threatening to block the Suez Canal, and sit-ins continues in other provinces.