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Resources on Egypt’s State Security Police

State Security arrest, torture son of Daqahliya MB detainee

Posted on 31/05/200728/12/2020 By 3arabawy

While the state security forces were detaining political analyst Abdul Rahman Salem in Daqahliya in the crackdown that included a number of supporters of MB candidates on May, 22, 2007; the state security officer attacked his family and intimidated women. This made his son Muhammad Abdul Rahman Salem, a student in the Faculty of Engineering Mansoura University, defend his brothers and his mother and stop in the officer who beat and insulted him and left him with a bundle of threats. Muhammad thought it all ended at this point.
On the following day, May, 23, 2007, while returning home in the village of Dangway Shirbin, he was stunned by three security bullies who beat him and took him to the state security headquarters in the city of Shirbin. As soon as he arrived, tortures started. He was handcuffed using iron till they swelled and he was hanged and beaten, not to mention descriptoion of the beating and torture.
The tortures asked him to insult himself and saying bad names like “” I am a woman, I am son of a bitch, I …………………. ). This made torture increase by the passage of time. Torture started from 11.00Am to 12.00 PM nonstop and without giving him and food or drink and even denying him the toilet.

MB detainee tortured in Kafr el-Zayat

Posted on 27/05/200728/12/2020 By 3arabawy

From Ikhwan Web:

The State Security Police in Kafr Al-Zayat, Gharbiya, added more to the Egyptian violations to human rights after State Security Officer Walid Ammar tortured a Muslim Brotherhood detainee this week using electric shocks and beating till he became deaf in one of his ears.
The State Security Police in Kafr Al-Zayat detained citizen Lotfi Muhammad Khalifa on May, 16, 2007 under the pretext that he possesses tapes of sheikh Amin Al Dib. He appeared before Basyoun prosecution that ordered him jailed for 15 days .
Although he was under prosecution custody, but he was detained in Basyoun police centre’s prison where officer Walid Ammar and Basyoun police chief, Tamer, continued torturing him for six full days. They were, starting from 12.00 midnight till 4.00AM, torturing him with electric shocking and beating, till he became deaf in one of his ears.
After six days of torture, he was moved to Tanta public prison on Monday, May 21, 2007, and he is currently in prison in a very deteriorated state of health.

Abu Omar threatens hunger strike in response to security hassles

Posted on 21/05/200720/01/2021 By 3arabawy

One hundred days have passed since Abu Omar’s release from State Security custody, and his saga continues.

Abu Omar was kidnapped from Milan, by the CIA in February 2003, part of their extraordinary renditions program, and was flown to Egypt where he was brutally tortured by the Mukhabarat and State Security Police.

Abu Omar is still banned from traveling outside the country. Moreover the government refuses to issue him a National ID card. This basically means he cannot open a bank account, issue a passport, or conduct any sort of transaction. He basically does not exist any more in the eyes of the law.

Abu Omar says he sent a letter to State Security Police demanding his documents, but they have ignored him completely. “If my problem does not get solved soon, I’ll travel to Cairo to protest and stage a hunger strike,” he told me tonight. “I’m expecting my arrest any minute, and have already prepared my bag with items I’ll need in prison.”