El Nadeem Center against Violence and Torture
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Beatings and harassment of a family: punishment for a citizen refusing to become an informer

Mohamed Sobhi Mohamed El Farakh is an Egyptian 53 year old man who works as a construction carpenter, he is married and has 3 living children; a daughter who is divorced and two sons. He lost his son Adel four years ago to AIDS. He was infected during a blood transfusion in Al Asafera specialist hospital, which led to the closure of the hospital. The hospital was reopened four months later by a decision from the governor. The death of Adel is not the last tragedy Mohamed Sobhi El Farakh has had to face. He was contacted more…

An order to remove a stable fence leads to the loss of the life of a citizen at the hands of the Police in Damanhoor

The Prosecutor’s office of Damanhoor gave an order of arrest of Major Mohamed Roshdy yesterday Friday 30/10/2009 . He is the head of demolitions at the Damanhoor Police Centre, he is to be charged with the homicide of Mohamed Ramzy Ali Ibrahim Al Sharkawy a 62 year old farmer who lives in the village of Menia Atteya under the Damanhoor Police Centre of Beheira governorate. This is case number 7366 for the year 2009 of the Damanhoor Police Centre. It was also decided that the driver of the demolition truck should be detained…

From inside the prison, a formal complaint against the Minister of Interior and the Director of Agouza Police Station

More than ten court rulings for release, yet Mohamed Abd El Rahim Mohamed Al Sharkawy remains detained Tomorrow the 28 of October 2009 at 2:00PM Mr. Ziad Al Alimi and a number of activists from Al Nadeem centre will go to the office of the Public Prosecutor of Cairo to present an official complaint against the Minister of Interior and the Director of Agouza Police Station. Mr. Mohamed Abd Al Rahim Mohamed Al Sharkawy has been detained for over 14 years, without being charged with or tried for any crime. The Ministry of…

The retrial of the attacker of the director of Al Nadeem Centre

The postponement of the trial to the the 3rd of November On the 31st of August the criminal court of Damanhour will consider case 6136 of the year 2008 of felonies of Kafr el Dawar. The victim in this case is Doctor Magda Adly the director of Al Nadeem centre and the accused is Ahmed Antar Ibrahim. The details of this case go back to April 2008 where Dr Magda Adly, with a group of human rights activists, was covering a hearing in Kafr el Dawar. An area in which citizens are exposed to incidents of torture. After the…

Torture and electrocution for Mahmoud for protesting to the verbal harassment of his daughter by a police officer

In the afternoon of Thursday the 2nd of July, Mahmoud Ramadan Rizk was with his son Ramadan (10 years old) and his daughter Asma’a (14 years old) next to the school of Agriculture in Shobra, when a blue police car passed by, that had four men inside, including one police officer who started verbally harrassing the young girl. The father objected to this, which resulted in the police officer getting out of the care and there was a tense arguement between the two. it ended with the police officer warning the father that he…