Hisham Abu Gheida, the general who was second in command to Hassan Abdel Rahman, director of SS. Abu Gheida was named by the ousted PM Shafiq as the director of SS on 3 March. He is accused of ordering SS officers to burn sensitive documents implicating the agency in torture and corruption.
General Abu Gheida ordered and supervised my detention and torture, on 8 October 2000.
The above photo was found on a DVD in State Security Police Nasr City headquarters.
Copts denounce the army during the funeral of those killed on the previous night during an attack on demonstrators in Moqattam (where a community of Coptic garbage collectors reside) protesting the sectarian attack on a church in Atfeeh, south of Cairo in Helwan. The army had intervened yesterday. Thirteen were killed. It’s unclear how those Copts were killed–by the sectarian thugs or by army fire. In the video above, you find protesters shouting “the army brought the thugs” and “the army hit us.”