Posts Tagged: ss
The Central Security Forces
This (Arabic) study is one of the most accurate and detailed reports, I’ve come across, on the evolution of the Egyptian Interior Ministry’s Central Security Forces: UPDATE: I was honored to speak with the author of the study, in a Zoom meeting.
Read on »Egypt’s 25 January Revolution: 10 years on
Socialist writer ‘disappears’ in NSS custody
Veteran socialist writer and labor journalist, Ahmad Khalifa, has disappeared following his detention by the National Security Sector in Fayoum, on 6 January. His whereabouts remain unknown, as of time of writing.
Read on »Piggipedia updates: Tarek Saber
General Tarek Saber, who is wanted by the Italians on charges of involvement in the torture and murder of Giulio Regeni, has been promoted to head the Interior Ministry’s Civil Affairs Department. General Saber is a veteran of State Security Police’s Counter-Communism Bureau, charged with monitoring and smashing left-wing and labor organizations. He has personally
Read on »Piggipedia updates: Hisham El-Baradei
Hisham El-Baradei is one of the notorious SS police officers, whose photos were found in the Nasr City SS DVDs. Until recently he headed the Interior Ministry’s Prison Department that runs Sisi’s gulag. He was transferred this week to El-Motaba’a, a logistical position in the Interior Minister’s office.
Read on »NSS raid photojournalist house
A police force from the National Security Sector raided the house of Hamdi Mukhtar, a photojournalist, in Cairo on early morning last Tuesday, said his wife. His whereabouts is still unknown.
Read on »Pardoned murderer back in prison
Mohsen el-Sokkari, former State Security Police officer and contract killer, who was pardoned by Sisi last May, is back in prison, on money laundering charges.
Read on »Sisi’s Egypt: Impunity for torturers, murderers
Police in Egypt: Torture, repression and bribes
Al-Masry Al-Youm reports.
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