Posts Tagged: torture
Patterns of repression: Prisoners of Egypt’s counterrevolution
My latest article on repression in Egypt is available in English and German.
Read on »Torture in Egypt
The Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence issued today its report, on torture in Egypt throughout 2020:
Read on »Renewed protests in France against law that would restrict filming of police
Via France 24: Tens of thousands of protesters marched across France Saturday to denounce a security bill critics say would restrict the filming of police and posting images to social media, notably to document cases of police brutality.
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 »Piggipedia updates: Monks’ torturer promoted
General Khaled Abdel Hamid was promoted to the post of Luxor Security Director. He’s the officer who led the investigation into the infamous murder case of a Coptic monk, which included horrific torture and confessions extracted abusing suspects.
Read on »Sisi’s Egypt: Impunity for torturers, murderers
Collective punishment in Scorpion Prison
Egyptian security agencies in mid-November 2020 introduced changes in Cairo’s Maximum Security Prison 992, known as Scorpion Prison, that almost completely deprive inmates of adequate ventilation, electricity, and hot water, HRW stated in a new report.
Read on »The Torture Trade
A report by Amnesty International and the Omega Research Foundation on the global trade in torture tools.
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