El Nadeem Center against Violence and Torture
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Doctors and Torture

Beware of becoming a confidential informant while being a doctor

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…