Cairo’s administrative court rejected a case brought by lawyers seeking the expulsion from the police force of two officers convicted of sexually abusing and torturing a man in their custody.
Do bloggers have any influence in changing authoritarian regimes? Egyptian Blogger, Journalist, and activist Wael Abbas is a thorn in the side of the government and got month a million people read his blog. Zeinab Badawi asks; Is he just gaining celebrity status, or is he making a real difference?
Interrogation Log of Detainee 063
A highly informative article about the case from A-Z.
In accurate but it's on state media now.
Lack of adequate monitoring of places of detention has resulted in terrorist suspects being held incommunicado in “underground SSI cells,” putting them beyond the protection of the law, the SR says.
“I was treated like sh**,” Azab told Daily News Egypt. “There was everything, verbal humiliation, beating and no food to eat. You had to pay to eat,” he said.
"Those who feel complicit with the torture have a need to justify the torture, and so link the victim's pain to blame," says Gray. "On the other hand, those distant from torture have no need to justify it and so can sympathize with the suffering of the victim, linking pain to innocence."
Naqib centre for ma3rafsh eh is funded by freedom house.
Torture useless in interrogations because severe stress affects memory recall.
The 142 members of the IRCT - the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims - around the world.
“I swear to God that I didn’t hurt him in any way. I’ve been wronged. I’m clean of all charges. My daughters can’t even go to the club anymore because of these charges against me,” Suleiman shouted from the dock when asked to speak by the judge.
So why did they resort to extraordinary rendition if they were able to do all that? Or did they genuinely think that Egyptian interrogators were better at extracting info?
(careful graphic video) Marks on the mans right side look authentic or done by someone with forensic knowledge.
''Maybe [the kid is] blindfolded for him not to see the base and how we're working... But I believe maybe we put the blindfold because we don't want to see his eyes. You don't want him to look at us - you know, beg us to stop, or cry in front of us. It's a lot easier if we don't see his eyes.
The Public Prosecutor eventually approved the lawyers’ demands to transfer all the suspects to the forensic medical center after the defense had proven the existence of injuries and effects of torture on at least one of the suspects.
Ibrahim says that she sustained an injury to her knee when she was dragged down the stairs of her building from her second floor apartment outside to the street. She says she was horrified by the fact that her neighbors saw her in her house clothes, unveiled and in a short-sleeved dress.
A Handbook for Health Professionals - Michael Peel and Noam Lubell with Jonathan Beynon (2005)
The orange background is horrible.
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), in partnership with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), has published a report documenting the scope and long-term impact of rape and other sexual violence experienced by women who fled attacks on their villages in Darfur and are now refugees in neighboring Chad. This scientific study, corroborates women’s accounts of rape and other crimes against humanity that they have experienced in Darfur, as well as rape and deprivations of basic needs in refugee camps in Chad.
Human rights workers have been physically assaulted as well as arrested. When Dr Magda Adly, of the Al-Nadeem Centre for the rehabilitation of torture victims, left a police station in Kafr el-Dawa after interviewing four detainees who said they had been tortured, she was knocked unconscious and her arm was broken.
Oromos were tortured more often than Somalis, whereas Oromo men and Somali women were the ethnic/gender groups most often tortured. A number of possible explanations can be posited. The very high rates in the Oromo community may reflect long-standing interethnic conflicts. Somali women were more often tortured than Somali men. Anecdotally, Somali men were either killed in their home country or able to escape unharmed, whereas women and children had a more difficult time leaving the country.
"It is way worse than I thought it would be, and that's no joke,"Mancow said, likening it to a time when he nearly drowned as a child. "It is such an odd feeling to have water poured down your nose with your head back...It was instantaneous...and I don't want to say this: absolutely torture."
A paper by Scott Long examining the forensic examination of suspected homosexuals in Egypt. This paper describes how Egyptian forensic doctors by doing so are actually taking part in torture and throws light on the lack of scientific basis to support these examinations.
المتهمين حضروا فى سيارة ترحيلات بعد منتصف الليل، وأدخلهم الحرس على دفعات إلى مبنى مصلحة الطب الشرعى، الذى شهد حراسة أمنية مشددة حتى انتهت إجراءات الكشف الطبى عليهم، والتى استمرت لمدة ٣ ساعات تقريباً، وقال شهود عيان إن ٨ سيارات أمن مركزى وشرطة كانت تحاصر المبنى وغادرت بعد انتهاء الكشف.