Ahmad Galal and Ahmad Abul Ezz, two senior police officials in Alexandria who are involved in abuses, are to remain in office based on directives from General Mansour el-Eissawi, the interior minister.
So much for reforming the police.
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Murderers on the loose سفاح الإسكندرية وائل الكومي
Officer Wael el-Komi, one of the notorious torturers at El-Raml 2nd Police Station in Alexandria, who was involved in the murder of unarmed protesters during the uprising, has been released by the prosecutor, together with two other officers, Motaz el-Asqalani of Gomrok Police Station and Muhammad Saafan of El-Montaza, who were accused of murders on the Friday of Anger. So much for reforming the police.
UPDATE: Following protests by the families of the martyrs, the three officers have been taken into custody again. It only goes to show that pressure from below and protests are still the only language the government understands. This revolution is hardly finished.
Khaled Gharraba خالد غرابة
General Khaled Gharraba, the former head of Criminal Investigations Division at the Gharbeia Province Security Directorate, whose men oversaw the mass detentions and torture of protesters during the Mahalla April 2008, was rewarded a promotion in 2010, by General Habib el-Adly, becoming the security director of Alexandria’s eastern sector.
General Gharraba is now the police chief of Alexandria, and you can see him in the video below, promising the Alexandrian citizens last Friday a “new age where the citizens come first”:
Yeah, right! People like you should be in prison for the torture and the fabrication of charges against the poor people of Mahalla!
We cannot keep this musical chairs game going on for long. Not only do we need to dissolve the State Security Police and Central Security Forces, but also we have to put all those interior ministry officials who were involved in torture and repression on trial. They have to face justice.