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Declaration to the S.G. of the Arab League

Cairo 22/6/2013, His Excellency the Secretary General of the Arab League, The below mentioned feminist and human rights organizations have expressed indignation at the announcement of the 9 month jail sentence and the travel bans placed on Saudi activists Fawzeya el Awani and Wageeha el Heweedar. The accusation was that they assisted a Canadian woman who was married to a Saudi man, to escape a situation of domestic violence that included her and her children being withheld food for several days. The activists attempted to…

Urgent: Lives of people detained in Tora prison in danger

Tora prison administration refuses to “investigate” the transfer of the patients and the injured to the hospital to complete their treatment and continues to hold them in poor conditions which might endanger their lives after being assaulted through beating and gunfire which caused serious injuries to them. Mina Adel Anis, 19 years old was assaulted in Tahrir Square on 17/12/2011 where he was passing by the square coincidently as he was heading downtown to shop for new shoes. He was brutally beaten by the forces of the…

Back for Vengeance!

A record set by the Egyptian security forces in the abuse of torture of citizens after a halt where torture was only practiced by the military police. The institutions differed whereas the torture remained, as if the revolution had not been on January 25, the police day in particular to send a clear message that the Egyptian people are tired of humiliation, torture and prosecution while the oppressors enjoy security, immunity and protections of the prosecution and the law. Is the ministry of interior avenging itself? Or is…

Military Justice: Beating, Dragging, Disregard for forensics, Indecent Assaults and Alteration of Charges

The night of bloody Sunday, October 9, 2011, Military Police and Central Security arrested 29 people, mostly Christians who were transferred to military prosecution. The following day Binyamin Raafat Farag, a minor by virtue of law, and an adult by virtue of military justice was also arrested. And therefore he and two other minors Hanah Lateef Faheem and Abanob Naseef Zaki, like others appeared before military trials. As it had been accustomed, the process of arrest was associated with beatings, insults and humiliation, it…

Commentary from Egyptian human rights organizations on the interview with Major General Hamdy Badeen military police commander in the…

On March 17th , 2011 , El-Shorouk newspaper published an interview with Major General Hamdy Badeen, military police commander. Badeen denied all torture allegations by the army or military police and denied that the Egyptian museum has turned into a slaughter house . Badeen innocently wondered from which gate the military police vehicles would enter to collect detainees. Badeen added that he knows 27 of the revolution youth who were arrested on March 6 when demonstrators tried to get through to SSI in Lazoghly. He claimed…