I received a statement from the Association for Human Rights Legal Aid (AHRLA), saying they were launching a campaign against State Security Captain Ashraf Mustafa Hussein Safwat, who electrocuted to death in 2003 citizen Muhammad Abdel Kader, a resident in Hadayeq el-Qobba neighborhood in Cairo.
The officer detained 31-year-old Muhammad and his brother Sameh, 27, on 16 September 2003, with no court orders or charges. Five days later, their family was phoned and requested to come and receive Muhammad’s dead body which carried torture marks.
Though the prosecutor took a decision to investigate the officer after three years of the incident, the family was forced to drop the case in court, after the officer blackmailed them using Sameh, who’s still in detention without trial, as a bargaining chip.
