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Detainees’ families demand investigating Giza State Security officer

Posted on By 3arabawy

Families of a number of Islamist detainees, currently held in Tora, have filed a lawsuit against police officer Wael Nour, of the Religious Activities Monitoring Unit at Giza’s State Security bureau.

The families accused the officer of torturing their detained relatives before they were transferred to Tora Prison, which resulted in severe physical injuries to several of them, including detainee El-Sayyed Mahmoud Salah, 49, who lost his hearing senses and is suffering from spinal damage, due to torture.

Wael Nour, according to the lawsuit filed under number 14366 at the Public Prosecutor’s office, threatened the detainees with extrajudicial execution if they did not “cooperate.”

The 1st Cairo Torture Film Fest

Posted on By 3arabawy

A new initiative from Egyptian bloggers. The 2007 Cairo Torture Film Fest has opened the nomination doors for its grand awards:

The Golden Whip Award: For the best police torturer
The Silver Whip Award: For the best silent court judge
The Bronze Whip Award: For the audience who are watching the movies, and still vegging

Please submit your nominations to the following blog: Kharbana ya Geda’an!

El-Adly Videogate: HRW slams government cover up

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The NYC-based rights watchdog slammed the Egyptian regime, in a statement yesterday, for going after Howeida Taha, Al-Jazeera reporter who’s been putting together a documentary on police abuse in Egypt and the Arab World.

“The Egyptian government seems willing to do anything to silence discussion of its torture scandal,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “This reaction makes a mockery of any claims by Egypt to be a government that respects human rights.”

UPDATE: The Committee to Protect Journalists denounced govt intimidation against Howeida…

“This case is a sham and reflects this government’s disdain for critical media,” CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon said. “We call on the Egyptian authorities to immediately drop charges against Howayda Taha Matwali.”