State Security agents kidnapped and tortured a citizen in Fayoum for his solidarity with the Beit Hanoun massacre victims, Ikhwan Web reports.
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CIA abuses: EU report condemns European complicity
From Human Rights Watch:
CIA Abuses: EU Report Condemns European Complicity
Report Stresses Further Need to Investigate Secret Detention and Rendition to Torture
(New York, November 29, 2006) – A new report by the European Parliament’s Temporary Committee on illegal CIA activity in Europe is a powerful indictment of European governments’ complicity in CIA abuses, Human Rights Watch said today.
“The report shows how European governments acted as the willing facilitators of CIA abuses such as secret detention and rendition to torture,” said Joanne Mariner, terrorism and counterterrorism director at Human Rights Watch. “European governments must now investigate these abuses fully and take steps to ensure that they do not happen again.”
Banna to MPs: Investigating police torture is more important than the veil
Liberal writer Gamal el-Banna, brother of the Muslim Brotherhood’s founder Hassan el-Banna, had a good op-ed in today’s Al-Masry Al-Youm, where he slammed members of parliament for devoting their energies to discuss Farouk Hosni’s remarks about the veil. Instead, they should focus on torture inside police stations, he insisted, referring to leaked police brutality videos he watched on a CD.