gharbeia archives — Page 40 of 41

Protests roundup

Posted on 10/08/200728/12/2020 By 3arabawy

Tuesday, 7 August:

Al-Masry Al-Youm is reporting that 7,000 residents from the Nasr slum, in Maadi took blocked the highroad protesting drinking water shortages. The citizens were carrying empty plastic containers. They were dispersed by the police which threatened to use live ammunition.

In the evening, journalists marked the victims of torture by standing in silence at the Press Syndicate.

While in Tanta, 200 farmers protested demanding the govt fulfilled its promises of supplying them with fertilizers.

El-Adly Videogate: Tanta Police attack street vendors

Posted on 03/08/200715/01/2021 By 3arabawy

A new video of Mubarak’s police in action has surfaced the web. This time a group of shabab witnessed the local police in Tanta during one of their raids against street vendors.

MB detainee tortured in Kafr el-Zayat

Posted on 27/05/200728/12/2020 By 3arabawy

From Ikhwan Web:

The State Security Police in Kafr Al-Zayat, Gharbiya, added more to the Egyptian violations to human rights after State Security Officer Walid Ammar tortured a Muslim Brotherhood detainee this week using electric shocks and beating till he became deaf in one of his ears.
The State Security Police in Kafr Al-Zayat detained citizen Lotfi Muhammad Khalifa on May, 16, 2007 under the pretext that he possesses tapes of sheikh Amin Al Dib. He appeared before Basyoun prosecution that ordered him jailed for 15 days .
Although he was under prosecution custody, but he was detained in Basyoun police centre’s prison where officer Walid Ammar and Basyoun police chief, Tamer, continued torturing him for six full days. They were, starting from 12.00 midnight till 4.00AM, torturing him with electric shocking and beating, till he became deaf in one of his ears.
After six days of torture, he was moved to Tanta public prison on Monday, May 21, 2007, and he is currently in prison in a very deteriorated state of health.