Ahmad Maher speaks about the torture he faced on the hands of Mubarak’s State Security Pigs.
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Update on Bulaq police sadist Islam Nabih
I’m posting a part of the message I received from a blogger in Cairo, who has family friends with the Bulaq el-Dakrour Police Sadist Islam Nabih…
It appears that through his father’s connections with wazir al-dakhliya (the Interior Minister), Islam is actually in a mu3askar (camp), somewhere along taree2 masr iskindirya (Cairo – Alexandria desert road) and his punishment is not being able to leave its premises. and it seems that since he’s served a year and a half (jail time), that he will be ‘released’ during the next major holiday – probably el eid el-sughayar (Eid el-Fitr). His father has also appealed and there’s a chance that Islam will come out innocent, and because aslan (in the first place) he hasn’t been put in a real jail, he’s going to be able to go back to his police job 3ady (normally).
Can some journalist in Cairo follow up on this?
Another Facebook activist detained and abused
Troubling news about Ahmad Maher!
Maher, facebook group editor, was kidnapped for 14 hours, blindfolded, handcuffed, tortured @new cai police st & lazoghli
— Nora Younis (@NoraYounis) May 8, 2008
The Daily News Egypt reports:
The administrator and arguably the real creator of the April 6 Strike group on Facebook Ahmad Maher was detained briefly Wednesday and beaten, his lawyer told Daily News Egypt.
Khaled Ali, who is the head of the Hisham Mubarak Center for Human Rights, posted details of the incident on the center’s website saying Maher was detained for the better part of the day before being released at dawn.
According to Ali, Maher was near his home in New Cairo and on his way to work at 1 pm when he was forced from his car and thrown into a microbus where he was transported to the local police station.
He was beaten there and then transported to State Security headquarters in Lazoughly downtown at 4 pm. There, he was reportedly tied at the feet and hung upside down and beaten again, Ali said.
Maher was dragged by the rope and was threatened with rape, all the while being questioned about the Facebook group and its password, Ali added.
When a group is created on Facebook, a password is not needed, with the creators and chosen “officers” given direct access to moderation of the group.
Maher was told that he amounted to nothing, the country was under control and a bunch of kids would not be able to change anything.
Ali told Daily News Egypt that State Security officers were angry that Maher had ignored a previous request to appear at the headquarters for questioning.
And then the bad-cop-good-cop game continues:
At that point another officer came in and shouted at the ones beating Maher telling them he had not ordered them to do this. The officer then told Maher they knew he was a patriot but that there were others within the group who were attempting to sabotage the country.
At that point the officer told him he would be released and he was given his clothes and other articles with the exception of his camera which the officer promised would be returned later. He was then taken back to his car at 4 am.