Hossam el-Hamalawy
Journalist Liam Stack has a piece today in DSE about the torture debate in Egypt. One thing that intrigued me in the article was one NDP apologist, Hussein Amin, who defended the regime in an interview:
He says he has seen videos of interns being tortured in Abu Ghraib in Iraq as well as photos of political prisoners abused in Guantanamo.
“If the Americans treat prisoners this way, I think that Egyptians take that as a model.”
Thanks America.
Two police corporals are currently under investigation for attempting to rape a woman in Tahrir Square’s underground metro (Sadat Station) on Wednesday, Al-Masry Al-Youm reports.
The woman approached a police corporal inside the underground station, asking him for directions to the nearest exit to KFC at 1:30pm. To her surprise, he pointed at the security office in the station, and told her that was her destination, before grabbing her to the office and attempting to rape her with the help of another police corporal. The woman managed to escape, in complete trauma with torn clothes.
The prosecutor has opened an investigation into the case, with two citizens coming forward as witnesses.