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.
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Resources on Egypt’s State Security Police
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 detained and tortured scores of leftists throughout his career. The same bureau later was expanded, prior to the 2011 revolution, to include the monitoring of NGOs and human rights groups.
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.