Military Police Summons Director of Hisham Mubarak Law Center
Military police investigations has summoned colleague and lawyer Ahmed Ragheb, director of Hisham Mubarak Law Center tomorrow, Tuesday, 10 a.m. (22 Waley El Ahd street – Hadaek El Kobba – Cairo) regarding the attack by military police on the center on the 3rd of February 2011.
Raghib had filed a complaint to the military prosecutor against military police regarding the break into the center, the destruction of its property and the arrest of all present on the 3rd of February. It was therefore expected that Raghib be summoned by the military prosecutor and not the military police.
Accompanying Raghib tomorrow will be a number of lawyers among them representatives of human rights organizations.
Background
The breaking into the Hisham Mubarak Law Center
On the 3rd of February 2011 at about 2.30 pm an individual claiming to be the Azbakeyya investigation inspector broke into HMLC ordering everybody there to sit on the floor. He was followed by a military police lieutenant accompanied by two military police officers where the former stood on a chair and shouted: I have orders to shoot anybody who moves. A huge group of thugs then entered the center accompanied by an intelligence officer. They searched the place, destroyed files and stole some of them, destroyed desks and took papers and CDs, searched personal bags of staff all the while throwing obscenities and accusations of destroying Egypt and conspiring with foreigners.
After 6 hours of insults, verbal abuse, accusations of treason and tying the hands of staff members with leather strings the detainees were taken to the central administration of the military police in Khalifeh el Maamun in Heliopolis where their names were taken and photos and videos taken of them. They we then transported to some headquarters in Madinet Nasr, assumed to be one of the headquarters of military intelligence where they were interrogated while blindfolded. They were then released three days later.
As for the center, windows, doors, desks, drawers and file cabinets were destroyed. Two computers, a printer, fax machine, router and a scanner disappeared.