In response to the increasing police attacks against photographers, especially during their coverage of the Duweiqa and National Theater disasters, a protest is planned in front of the Press Syndicate, 11am, on 12 October, marking the anniversary of the catastrophic 1992 earthquake.
This will be the second anti-police brutality demonstration organized by photographers since February 2007.
Today’s El-Badeel provides more details on the torture Alexandrian coffeeshop owner Salah Hassan, in Sidi Gaber Police Station. The citizen was slapped, kicked, punched, made to strip and was sexually abused by the police agents. The latter made him also kneel to them, while describing themselves as the “new pharaohs”!
In Luxor, officers and corporals insulted and physically assaulted two judges at the airport, while in Cairo 600 students at the Engineering Faculty of Ain Shams University staged a sit in protesting police assault against a female colleague, El-Badeel reports.
For continuous updates on police torture, check out the Torture in Egypt Diigo group.
The Egyptian Workers and Trade Unions Watch has issued its report on the industrial action during the last two weeks of August.
A report on the first two weeks of August could be found here.