Fathi Abul Ezz produced this cartoon of Bulaq al-Dakrour Police Station Captain Islam Nabih, who is to stand in court facing charges of torturing and sexually abusing driver Emad Kabeer.
Photographer Ahmad el-Masry had exclusively photographed the officer while leaving the Prosecutor’s office last week.
UPDATE: Torture in Egypt blog has designed a banner, with Islam’s face, calling for prosecution of torturers.
The Bulaq al-Dakrour Police Station agents involved in the sexual abuse of driver Emad Kabeer have been officially referred by the prosecutor to court, reports Al-Masry Al-Youm today.
The South Cairo Prosecutor decided yesterday that Police Captain Islam Nabih Abdel Salam Awad, 29, and Police Corporal Reda Fathi el-Sayyed Abu Fatma, 28, would face charges of torture in court on 9 January.
(Correction: Their trial is not expected to start before March, Emad’s lawyer Nasser Amin told me.)
No decision yet has been announced in the case of Lieutenant Mustafa Shehata of El-Haram Police Station (seen in action below), but Al-Masry Al-Youm said his prosecution was “imminent.”
Photographer Ahmad el-Masry also managed to photograph the torturer Islam Nabih while leaving the Prosecutor’s office yesterday:
Two police officers and a corporal will be referred to the Cairo Criminal Court “within few days” to stand trial for charges of abusing citizens in custody, in the latest development of police torture videos scandal.
Prosecutor Bakr Ahmad Bakr, reported Al-Masry Al-Youm today, decided there was sufficient evidence to prosecute Officer Islam Nabih and Corporal Reda Fathi of Bulaq al-Dakrour Police Station (seen in action above), as well as Lieutenant Mustafa Shehata of El-Haram Police Station (seen in action below).
Meanwhile, a source inside the State TV & Radio building told Al-Masry Al-Youm “security procedures are being taken” inside the building to determine the identity of the woman believed to be the victim in the third video clip under investigation.
Note there are other videos the prosecution is not looking into, including those from Imbaba Police Station, like this one…
and this one…
and this one from the El-Montaza Police Station…
and this one in Giza…
and this one in Cairo downtown…
And this one of Mubarak Police Academy Cadets in training…
and this one from Kefaya’s anti-corruption protest…
You add to that the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of cases of police brutality and abuse under Mubarak’s regime against political detainees and ordinary citizens…
Anyways, I wish Islam Nabih, Reda Fathi and Mustafa Shehata all the best with the shame and public humiliation they will bring on themselves and their families.
