Sameer Padania of Global Voices writes about the Egyptian bloggers’ anti-torture campaign.
Tag: bloggers
Internet fuels rise in number of jailed journalists
Troubling findings by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
More police brutality videos
A video clip surfaced online, of the Egyptian police in Damietta, during the November 2005 parliamentary elections. The interior ministry, then, unleashed its agents on the citizens, kidnapping and barring voters from approaching polling stations as it became clear the opposition parties were gaining more seats:
And here’s a video of police officers hitting one of downtown Cairo’s street vendors. Local authorities regularly crack down on them, confiscating their merchandise:
Also a video of Kuwaiti police brutality was leaked, showing an officer abusing an Indian worker inside a police station in Kuwait: