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SS Brigadier Muhammad Mahmoud Borghosh عميد أمن دولة محمد محمود برغش

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From SS Officers

Among the sets I found on the Nasr City SS DVDs was one of Brigadier General Muhammad Mahmoud Borghosh.

The officer’s name was mentioned in the infamous case filed by NDP lawyer Samir el-Sheshtawi against Ad-Dustour editor and dissident journalist Ibrahim Eissa. The latter was sentenced to prison over bogus charges, but was “pardoned” by Mubarak in a PR move.

Judge Mahmoud Hamza, one of the reformist Judges who took part the “Judges Intifada” accused Borghosh of taking part in the brutal assault against him on 23 April 2006, as SS and the Central Security Forces moved in to suspend the sit in staged by activists in solidarity with the reformist Judges in downtown Cairo.

Brigadier General Borghosh is no stranger to human rights activists. Lawyer Gamal Eid wrote me:

محمد برغش.. أحد ضباط أمن الدولة سيئ السمعة. كان ضمن المسئولين عن ملف المحامين والقضاء، وبدءا من عام 2003 ، أصبح مسئول ملف القضاء فقط وكان أعلى وسيط امن الدولة في التعامل مع القضاة. وخلال محاكمة أيمن نور كان دوره أهم من عادل عبدالسلام جمعة رجل الحكومة في القضاء. وإذا استطعت الوصول لصور من محاكمات أيمن نور التي حضرتها كمراقب للهيومان رايتس ووتش كان دائما ما يقف على المنصة خلف القضاة الثلاثة فضلا عن دوره في توجيه محاكمة البسطويسي ومكي التي .فبركها النظام السابق

Eid describes Borgosh as

…one of the State Security Police officers with the worst reputations. He was in charge of the lawyers’ and judges’ file… and was the most senior liaison between State Security Police and the Judges. During Ayman Nour’s trial, his [Borghosh’s] role was more important than the pro-government presiding judge, Adel Abdel Salam Goma’a. If you can get hold of any of the photos of Ayman Nour’s trial sessions, which I attended as a monitor for Human Rights Watch, you’ll find him [Borghosh] always standing behind the judges’ bench. Needless to say, he had a role in directing the trial of [Judges Hisham] el-Bastaweesi and Mahmoud Mekki.

Why isn’t Brigadier General Borghosh on trial now? Will he be part of the newly established National Security Sector?

Hypocrites!

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Give me a break! I can’t take this bullshit anymore!

Mubarak’s grandson died? I’m heartbroken, but to declare three days of mourning at the State TV and private satellite channels, stop broadcasting films and songs, and just keep playing religious tunes and Quran on private and public radio channels?!! That’s just too much! Oh, and not only that, the Muslim Brothers, Ayman Nour  and the opposition were also quick to send condolences and express their devastation over hearing the news of the tragic event. Film screenings are canceled and the Cairo Opera House is in “chaos.”

Excuse me, Who is Muhammad Alaa Mubarak? A government official? A national hero? Who is he to put the state on hold for three days?

Why didn’t we have this national mourning when the kids in Duweiqa died? Everyday there are children who die in Gaza because of Mubarak’s insistence on strangling the strip by closing the Rafah crossing, No national mourning for that? What about the Mahalla children who were abused by Mubarak’s police in April 2008- No mourning for them?! What about those children who get whipped by Mubarak’s police in custody, no mourning for them?! No national mourning for the Shaha kid tortured by the police by electric shocks to death?!

Hypocrites!

European Parliament bashes Mubarak’s rights record

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From Al-Jazeera:

European Union politicians have adopted a resolution criticizing Egypt’s human rights record, as Cairo threatened to sever ties with the assembly and summoned EU ambassadors to complain.
In the vote, 52 of the 59 deputies present at the European parliament on Thursday voted in favor of the text, while the other seven abstained.
Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the assembly Green leader, said “the European parliament is sovereign and decides what it wants to decide”.
“If we have to criticize the rights situation in Egypt or Guantanamo or anywhere else, we’re going to do it. I couldn’t care less what they think in the Egyptian capital.”
The resolution criticizes Egypt over the status of religious minorities, alleged torture practices and the decades-long state of emergency.
It also calls for the immediate release of jailed dissident Ayman Nur, who mounted an unprecedented campaign against Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s president, in the 2005 presidential elections.
He was jailed for five years for fraud in a conviction widely seen as politically motivated.
In Cairo, the foreign ministry summoned EU ambassadors “to inform them of Egypt’s complete rejection of a draft resolution over human rights in Egypt”, a spokesman said.