The Chicago Tribune ran a story yesterday on kidnapped Egyptian cleric Abu Omar.
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Solidarity campaign with police torture victim’s family
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.
Four Tunisians risk torture on return
They were among a group of students, both foreign and Egyptian, arrested at around the end of November. All were interrogated and allegedly tortured in connection with the activities of a terrorist cell recruiting people in Egypt to go to fight the US-led coalition in Iraq. All were detained for some weeks at the State Security Intelligence (SSI) office in Madinet Nasr, Northern Cairo, during which time they claim that they were tortured: this included being beaten and given electric shocks to sensitive parts of their bodies while blindfolded and handcuffed. They were also prevented from sleeping and forced to watch as their cellmates were tortured.