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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.

A spokesperson for the northern Sinai tribes called on the government to change the provincial security directors “who are engaged in continuous violent practices against the Sinai Bedouins,” and demanded the release of the detained tribal youth, reports Al-Masry Al-Youm.

Sheikh Muhammad Attia Abu Rawas, who was chosen recently by the tribes as a spokesman according to Al-Masry Al-Youm, named in specific Police Brigadier Generals Essam Amer, the head of the provincial State Security office, Sami Lutfi, the head of General Security and his deputy Essam Fahmi, in addition to Ali Mekheimar, the head of Criminal Investigations, Reda Sweilam, the head of the provincial Investigations, as reported by the paper.

When I travelled to Northern Sinai last fall, I heard stories of torture by leftist activists and Taba bombings suspects. And I find it bloody ludicrous that the Bedouins who lived for centuries roaming the peninsula north and south, and traveling east and west canNOT move anywhere since the “liberation” without permission from the Mukhabarat, and they are hardly welcomed as workers or even visitors in Mubarak’s imaginary Riviera in the south.

Photographer Amr Abdallah traveled to Sinai, and took some photos.

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MB detainee tortured in Kafr el-Zayat

Postcard from Egypt

Sinai tribes demand govt change security directors