AI is holding a press conference to launch its Egypt report, this Wednesday, 12 noon at the Cairo Press Syndicate.
Tag: torture
Court re-opens investigation into Hadayek el-Qobba State Security torture case
The Zeitoun Family Court has ordered the re-opening of investigation into the death of citizen Muhammad Abdel Qader, of Hadayek el-Qobba, who was tortured to death by State Security Captain Ashraf Mustafa Hussein in September 2003.
The family had dropped the case, under pressures from State Security who detained Muhammad’s brother Sameh without charges to blackmail the victim’s family. But, after relentless campaiging by the Association for Human Rights Legal Aid, supported by the Kefaya bloggers, the family showed up in court yesterday and admitted they had dropped the case under intimidation.
Gulag is paradise, says Interior Ministry mouthpiece
The mouthpiece of the Interior Ministry, General Ahmad Diaa, who’s been crusading on TV screens, newspapers, and in the parliament trying desperately to defend his boss General Adly, and the big boss Mubarak, when it comes to police torture and abuse–now is coming up with a rosy picture about the country’s prisons.
The picture was so rosy, that the MB members of parliament present in the parliamentary session, wished they could return to prison to enjoy such five-star treatment.