He’s the officer who led the investigation into the infamous murder case of a Coptic monk, which included horrific torture and confessions extracted abusing suspects.

Protests against the much hated Luxor governor, Samir Farag, today, demanding his impeachment. As you can see and hear from the video above, the demonstrators were using the same slogans as those in Tahrir.

On Tuesday 25 November at 11am, the authorities, without warning, cut off electricity to the inhabitants of the hills of Gurna and removed supply cables. The families – men, women, CHILDREN – who were unable to come to an agreement for their relocation are therefore forced to use candles for lighting (as petrol for lamps is unavailable), even though these villagers had been paying their electricity bills.
Only archeologists and tourism sites continue to receive electricity.
The inhabitants have the feeling of living in Gaza rather than Egypt. They went to the hospital to begin a hunger strike but were refused entry.

In Luxor, officers and corporals insulted and physically assaulted two judges at the airport, while in Cairo 600 students at the Engineering Faculty of Ain Shams University staged a sit in protesting police assault against a female colleague, El-Badeel reports.

For continuous updates on police torture, check out the Torture in Egypt Diigo group.

Police on Saturday detained 25 Luxor residents for questioning about their involvement in clashes with police during a protest against government attempts to move the group from their homes to make room for an open-air museum, a security official said.
The detainees are facing charges of “illegal gathering and vandalism,” Omar Allameddin, head of the local prosecutor’s office, told the Associated Press.
During a violent demonstration on Friday in the ancient Egyptian city of Luxor, police forcibly prevented hundreds of protesters from entering the Karnak Temple, one of the most famous sites from the Pharaonic era.
The protesters hurled stones at police, who responded by firing tear gas and arresting several of them on the spot.

A state of rage overshadows residents of the village of Al-Baghdadi, Luxor district, after an officer, corporals and detectives affiliated to a law enforcement force at Luxor police station stormed into a house of a citizen, and tortured him and his family after sexually harassing them. This caused several bruises and injuries in several places in their bodies and led to keeping them for two days in the intensive care unit at Luxor Public Hospital; after their recovery, the family members along with their caregiver lodged dozens of complaints to Human Rights Organizations, the attorney general and the Interior Minister; an official report of the incident was written, forcing the officer to offer 10000 pounds bribe to the family members to persuade them of withdrawing their complaint; however, they refused to do so; the police chief exercised pressure on the caregiver of the family and threatened him with fabricating drug trafficking cases against him and fabricating prostitution cases against his daughters unless he withdraws the complaint.
This tragic story dates back to a Thursday dawn two weeks ago when a law enforcement officer at Luxor police station broke into the house of citizen Sayed Ahmad Ibrahim Abdullah, 54 years, a day laborer living in Shaeikh Al-Baghdadi due to a primary sentence in absentia against him; he was taken away wearing only underclothes and was sent to Luxor police station after torturing him and tearing out clothes of his wife and daughters, leading to a clash with neighboring residents who protested at these indecent acts of the police. …..
His son Hafez, 26 years old farmer, added:” When I saw the policemen and officers torturing my father, my mother and sisters, I said to the officer:” We will inform the Interior Minister of your violations; he replied: “The Interior Minister can do nothing because we are carrying out orders and instructions; then they tied me with a rope and beat me and tore all my clothes even my underclothes in front of my sisters.”