Egyptian Task-force against Torture

1 May General Ismail El Shaer, first assistant to the Minister of Interior, sends a warning to independent MPs refusing their request to organize a peaceful demonstration demanding political reform. The demonstration was planned to head to parliament to submit the demands to the chair. In its refusal, the Cairo security directorate states that within the current security situation such demonstrations and protests may lead to disruption of public security in the capital and obstruct traffic to the disadvantage of citizens…

“Police treatment of citizens in Egypt is some of the best in the world.  It is a far cry from what is circulated in some of the media outlets, which merely want to incite confusion on the Egyptian street.”      -- Dr. Nadia Makram Ebeid Former Minister of Environmental affairs and member of the “Police and the Egyptian People” Association 1 April Human Rights Watch said that Egyptian border guards fired on and killed three refugees as they tried to cross the border into Israel over the course of the four preceding days,…

This month the Association for Freedom and Expression observed an escalation in violence by security personnel and of arrest campaigns against Egyptian university students and their families. During the period of February 24th - April 15th 2010, the Association observed a massive number of student arrests, resulting in the incarceration of approximately 70 students.  Some of these students were kept in detention for a period of four days; others had their incarceration renewed for a period of fifteen days after the initial…