Sarah Carr reports:
A doctor from the El-Nadim Center for the Rehabilitation of the Victims of Violence was attacked by a policeman in a courtroom on Wednesday in Kafr El Dawwar, Beheira governorate.
According to a press statement issued by the El-Nadim Center, Dr Magda Adly suffered a cut to the head and a possible dislocated shoulder as a result of the attack. She had been admitted to a hospital for treatment, but has since discharged herself.
A car belonging to El-Nadim psychiatrist Dr Mona Hamdy, who was also present in the courtroom, was vandalized.
According to Dr Mostafa Hussein, a psychiatrist at El-Nadim, Adly’s aggressor attacked her with a knife before attempting to flee. He was apprehended by relatives of Sobhy Muhammad Hussein, the man at the center of the court session at which Adly was attacked, and is now being held in custody.
The policeman admitted that he was acting upon the orders of chief intelligence officer Ahmad Maklad, the officer implicated in the Hussein case.
On Tuesday, April 22 at 2 am a police intelligence force from Kafr el-Dawar broke into the home of Hussein’s son Muhammad while they were both away in Marsa Matrouh.
The force, consisting of officer Tamer El-Gizawy and six detectives told Muhammad’s daughter that they were looking for an individual named Muhammad Farouq before searching the house and eventually leaving.
At 10 am on the same day a larger police force returned to the house. Five armed officers and 14 detectives entered and attacked Hussein’s other son, Ahmad with iron and wooden bars, stripped him naked and dragged him 400 meters to the police station.
Ahmad was assaulted in front of his father, mother, wife, children and neighbors.
