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State Security torture MB activist in Kafr el-Sheikh

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From Ikhwan Web…

Farid Shaaban, a Muslim Brotherhood member from the district of Dessouk, Kafr El Sheikh, is currently undergoing torture by the state security forces in the governorate.
Shaaban was detained last March, 24, one day before the referendum on the constitutional amendments. He was leaving work alone in Damanhur when he was attacked by 8 persons who dragged him by force to the State Security Police headquarters in Damanhur, governorate of El-Behera. He was showered there with kicks with the hands and fists and obscene. On the second day, he appeared before the prosecutor who charged him of belonging to an outlawed group and distributing leaflets that call for boycotting the referendum.
On the third day, the prosecution decided to release him. However, the state security rejected the release and sent him to the State Security Police in Kafr Al-Sheikh. Officer Khaled Dabash insulted him and threatened him with arresting his wife and beating her and shocking her with electricity.

Mubarak’s military to try Brotherhood members

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From Al-Jazeera:

An Egyptian court has upheld a decision by Hosni Mubarak, the president, to have 40 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood group tried by a military court.
Essam Abdel Aziz, a supreme administrative court judge, reversed a ruling in a lower court passed on May 8 that had declared the president’s decision invalid.
The court ruling clears the way for the resumption of the military trial of the detainees, some of whom have been in police custody since December.
Brotherhood lawyers said the judges examining the case were all working for the government as paid consultants and could not be impartial.
Abdel Moniem Abdel Maqsoud, a Brotherhood lawyer, said: “All these [judges] are assigned … to the ministries and the presidency. So of course there’s an objection to this body hearing a case … where the opponent is the president.”
The ruling last month in the lower court had said that the referral of the detainees to military courts in February had been illegal, and the defendants should be tried in civilian courts.
That ruling required the authorities to free the detainees, but the government often ignores court release orders in cases involving opponents, and they have remained in detention.

Here’s also a video report by Dream TV: