The Egyptian Ministry of Interior: A criminal without limits – Minister of Interior must be impeached

Sunday, the 6th of June at 11.30 p.m., young Khaled Said, 28 years old, from Alexandria was in a internet café in the district of Cleopatra when a group of police informers entered the café and started inquiring about the internet users. When they reached Khaled they tried to search him. He refused and asked for the reason. We shall not address the flood of abuses that were thrown by the police, nor shall we go into the details of the search that resulted in the theft of Khaled’s money, nor the details of the beating that followed inside and outside the café.. the only relevant details is that Khaled’s life ended by the hands of the Sidi Gaber policemen.. for no reason, for no crime, with no rationale other than the ruthless, senseless brutality, thuggery and criminality of a regime served by a ministry of interior whose forces are systematically using torture, confident that they are above the law, accountable to no one.

Suffice it to say that Khaled Said entered the internet café a handsome young man and by the end of the day he was a lifeless body, brutally and monstrously killed by the trained criminals of the Egyptian ministry of Interior.

In the Kom el Dekka morgue in Alexnadira, where Khaled’s body was taken the police initially refused to grant entrance to his brother and took him to the Sidi Gaber police station to tell him a false story of Kahled’s substance abuse which eventually led to his death. However, the shattered skull, the dislocated jaw, the broken nose, the bruises, the injuries and the testimonies of dozens of witnesses all told a different story: that Khaled was killed by the hands of the men of the Egyptian ministry of interior, of the Egyptian regime. They basically beat him to death.

The violations of the security authorities did not stop here. Later in the evening, young men and women gathered in front of the police station, expressing their anger regarding Khaled’s death, demanding that those responsible be brought to justice. 70 young men and women stood on the pavement opposite the station, which closed the lights and attacked the protestors, beat them, dragged them along the street, injured some of them, terrorized them with police dogs and arrested several of them.

Instead of a public apology.. instead of arresting the criminals and bringing them to justice.. instead of impeaching Habib el Adly (minister of interior) and brining him to trial, the police arrested 10 of the protesting youth, among them two women. While the women were released later on the young men will be prosecuted later today.

Today, the Egyptian governmental delegation will again be at the UN human rights council in the final UPR session for Egypt, spreading its lies abut the “golden age of democracy and respect for human rights”, their hands stained by the blood of hundreds of Egyptians who lost their lives under torture in police stations and detention centers of the emergency regime.

We can no longer call for appropriate legal procedures to be undertaken.. the country is not ruled  by the law.. the offenders are the same people who are in charge of the lives of citizens.. its parliament is incapable of questioning the minister of interior.. and its laws are frozen by means of an emergency state that clearly defines security as the ultimate power in the country, granting immunity to whoever serves the regime.

Khaled’s death will not be reconciled by an interrogation in the case, nor a prison sentence for “excessive use of force”, nor by the attempts of bribing and terrorizing his family to withdraw their complaints. Nothing less that they impeachment of Minister of interior Habib el Adly and bringing him to justice for the thousands of crimes committed by his men over more than three decades.