testimonies

Testimonies from January 2013 Testimonies from November 2012 Testimonies of youth protecting others from sexual harassment Segments of pre-released documents related to sexual torture in Tahrir Square Amnesty International Report Paper of the situation from Nazra for feminist studies Introduction We present in this compendium a number of testimonies from survivors of sexual torture in the vicinity of Tahrir Square. The testimonies have been collected from a number of websites, as well as from testimonies collected by…

UPDATE: Bahaa was released on Thursday April 15 after paying 5000 EGPs bail. The public attorney for North Cairo refused to refer Bahaa Saber for forensic examination without giving plausible reasons. The obvious reason is the wish of the prosecution to wait until Bahaa's injuries are healed to cover up for the torture he suffered by the hands of intelligence officers of both el Azbakeyya and Boulaq Abu El Ela police stations. Another story of the usual complicity between the prosecution and the police. Bahaa Saber was one…

UPDATE: The case has been adjourned until Dec 28 after Shady's lawyers requested that the civil claim be announced and the police station's log book be made available to them. El Nadeem Centre invites all who are interested in combatting torture, individuals involved in Human Rights or media institutions to join in solidarity with Shady Maged Sa’ad Zaghloul and his wife. He was arrested and tortured in 6th October City Police Station two. After having made a complaint to the prosecutor’s office and showing his injuries and…

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…

On Thursday 19/03/2009 I represented Al Nadeem centre while visiting Tamer Mohamed Abbas -a victim of Police Officer ‘A’ at Al Gameel passage- after news of the incident was published in Al Badeel newspaper. I arrived at Port Said General Hospital with Mr Hany El Gebaly and Ms. Hanem Ibrahim who are both lawyers from the Mousawa Centre for Human Rights in Port Said. This was at about 4:00PM during the hospital’s official visiting hours. After 10 minutes a doctor from the hospital arrived and introduced himself to us as the…