Gamma International’s Finfisher program would have enabled government spies to monitor activists and censor websites, according to documents obtained by activists after storming State Security Police headquarters in Nasr City: One of the papers, in English and headed Finfisher Proposal: Commercial Offer, contained an offer dated 29 June 2010 to provide “FinSpy” software, hardware, installation
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Art and #Jan25 revolution
Check out this set of paintings by Daisy Rockwell, inspired by the Egyptian revolution. The painting above is based on a photo I too during the storming of Nasr City State Security Police headquarters.
Read on »#AmnDawla: Dissolving through direct action
By Jody McIntyre: “The dissolving of the state security is a victory,” el-Hamalawy continues, “but it does not mean there will be no more torture in Egypt. There were many different elements of the security forces implicated in crimes under the previous regime, right down to the traffic police. The dissolving of the state security
Read on »Terror Chief: General Hassan Abdel Rahman جلاد الشعب مدير أمن الدولة اللواء حسن عبد الرحمن
From SS Officers General Hassan Abdel Rahman, the infamous director of State Security police, who was replaced by General Hisham Abu Gheida on 2 March 2011. Both are reportedly now under house arrest. No official confirmation from the army.
Read on »Hisham Abu Gheida هشام أبو غيدة جلاد أمن الدولة
Hisham Abu Gheida, the general who was second in command to Hassan Abdel Rahman, director of SS. Abu Gheida was named by the ousted PM Shafiq as the director of SS on 3 March. He is accused of ordering SS officers to burn sensitive documents implicating the agency in torture and corruption. General Abu Gheida
Read on »#Jan25 Faces of Torture الجلادون
When we stormed State Security Police headquarters in Nasr City, which hosted one of Mubarak’s largest torture facilities, on Saturday I found two DVDs in one of the offices, both titled “أرشيف السادة ضباط الجهاز” The Agency Officers’ Archive. The DVDs included profile pictures of State Security officers, organized in folders. Each folder had the
Read on »SS files
A 2009 State Security Police file, including a report about former Gamaa Islamiya prisoners, found in a stash, in an underground garage at State Security Police headquarters in Nasr City.
Read on »SS shredded files
ِEgyptian revolutionaries go through State Security Police reports, amid bags of shredded documents, in an underground garage.
Read on »Inside SS Nasr City HQ: Torture devices أجهزة التعذيب بالكهرباء في أمن دولة مدينة نصر
Interview with Al-Jazeera: Egypt’s State Security Police
This was recorded yesterday…
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