When you get the chance, check the article I wrote for the AUC MESC newsletter on the deskilling of Egyptian police and the privatization of torture.
Tag: torture
Islamist detainees ‘disappear’
As expected with the latest bogus “jihadi group” case uncovered by the Interior Ministry: The American was released, the nine French suspects were released, and so were the two Belgians. As for the Arab and Egyptian detainees, they disappeared.
Police rape victim interviewed on TV
Emad Muhammad Ali, victim of police sexual abuse who was identified last week by Al-Fagr, was interviewed on Al-Qahira Al-Youm program.
Emad speaks in details about the torture he went through in Bulaq al-Dakrour Police Station, where agents took turns in whipping him, and then inserted an umbrella’s wooden stick in his anal opening, while sadistically asking him to repeat that he “is a fag” and there “is not a single man in Bulaq al-Dakrour” area. As the torture continued, police corporals and and an officer were recording the abuse on a mobile phone, telling Emad they would distribute it among “everyone” to scandalize him and to terrorize the men in Bulaq into submission to police rule.