The privatization of torture, rights activists repeatedly warn against, is clearly evident in the following Mansoura case:
“a guard named Saad Saad Abdel Bari took me from Salamon at 12 noon time and delivered me in Mansoura police station at 1.30. As soon as I arrived officer “Mahmoud Abul Makarem” started beating, slapping and abusing me in his office. Then he told the sergeants to bring a club.. Sergeant Muhammad went out to get the club.. the officer told sergeant El Sayed Abdel Nabi to sarch me.. they found 120 pounds.. the officer insisted to take my wallet.. he beat me with the club on my back and buttocks.. it had a diameter of about 4 cm.. then he told me to kiss the floor and stepped with his boots on my head.. then he ordered me to stand with my face to the wall.. they beat me more than 60 times on my back and shoulders.. then they threw me again on the floor.. while beating me Muhammad Farag was shouting: why did you upset El Sayed Abdel Nabi!! He continued to beat me while Muhammad Farag was taking pictures.. he was saying: I shall make you an example for the village and your family. The officer told them not to register me in the police station records!!”
Those were the words of citizen El Sayed Mahrous Abdel Wahed who was subject to brutal torture, that involved sexual assault, in Mansoura police station, as a complement to the family of his former wife.
