Tag: prisons
Torture in Hadra Prison
The above video has been circulating in the Egyptian blogosphere for a while. It purportedly shows a “welcome party” handed down by Alexandria’s Hadra Prison officers and corporals to a new truckload of prisoners. This video has been uploaded to youtube on 8 March, the abuse is believed to have happened sometime after January.
The Hadra prison is one of the most notorious prisons in the north (together with Borg el-Arab). Rights groups have already recorded several cases of torture in that facility.
Has the above video been investigated by General Mansour el-Essawi, the interior minister? Has it been investigated by the public prosecutor? Have those torturers, whose identities could be easily found by the interior ministry, been held accountable?
Police shooting prisoners
Guards in El-Este’naf Prison shooting live ammunition at prisoners, on 30 January, during the revolution. The faces of most of those officers are clear even when the vid quality is bad.
So did they stand trial for their crimes, for shooting unarmed prisoners? How many were injured or killed on that day?