The Shameless Audacity of Egyptian Police
This story is utterly shocking.
An Egyptian man named Imad Kabir tried to intervene in a dispute between Egyptian police and his cousin in January, 2006. The police detained Kabir and tortured him by sodomizing him with a stick. One of the abusers filmed the incident, the video became public on the Internet in November, and Egyptian bloggers circulated the video. Two of the officers accused of torturing Kabir were detained and will go on trial in March.
The most ironic twist in this incident, however, is that now the Egyptian government has detained Kabir again for “resisting authority”, and Human Rights Watch said that Kabir has “received several phone calls threatening him and his family unless he dropped his case against the police.”
Sadistic torture is a integral part of the culture in Egyptian prisons. In addition to Kabir’s video, a handful of other videos of Egyptian prisoners being tortured – including female detainees – have begun to surface on the Internet.
One would hope that this publicity, as embarrassing as it is to the torture victims, will apply enough pressure on the Egyptian government to eliminate these disgusting practices.
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An Egyptian man named Imad Kabir tried to intervene in a dispute between Egyptian police and his cousin in January, 2006. The police detained Kabir and tortured him by sodomizing him with a stick. One of the abusers filmed the incident, the video became public on the Internet in November, and Egyptian bloggers circulated the video. Two of the officers accused of torturing Kabir were detained and will go on trial in March.
The most ironic twist in this incident, however, is that now the Egyptian government has detained Kabir again for “resisting authority”, and Human Rights Watch said that Kabir has “received several phone calls threatening him and his family unless he dropped his case against the police.”
Sadistic torture is a integral part of the culture in Egyptian prisons. In addition to Kabir’s video, a handful of other videos of Egyptian prisoners being tortured – including female detainees – have begun to surface on the Internet.
One would hope that this publicity, as embarrassing as it is to the torture victims, will apply enough pressure on the Egyptian government to eliminate these disgusting practices.
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Labels: current_events, human_rights
posted by Lingua Islamica at 11:23 AM
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