Tag: sinai
Pig Watch
A police major was sentenced to five years in prison for torturing a citizen to death in Sharqiya province, while a police corporal was arrested in Rafah for trying to rape a housewife.
Continuous updates on police torture are available on the Torture in Egypt Blog and Diigo group.
Officers and sergeants from Crime Investigations, State Security, Central Security Forces and University Guards Units are also profiled in the Piggipedia Flickr group.
Galloway’s circus
From El-Badeel:
The Popular Committee for the Solidarity with Palestine activists in Arish boycotted Galloway’s convoy, accusing him of “coordination with the NDP and saving the regime’s face”, as General Shousha, the governor of N. Sinai, made arrangements with the State Security police senior staff and the local NDP officials for a “warm reception,” that included tightening security all over Arish, forcing local officials to dress in the traditional Sinai costumes (to add to the ambiance of the photo shots), ordering all schools to mobilize their pupils to stand on the two sides of the highway to “greet” the convoy.
General Shousha also stated, according to El-Badeel, that the NDP was to take care of all the “convoy’s expenditure.”