Friday
06Oct2006
Two more citizens tortured in Arish
Two citizens were tortured by the First Arish Police Station sheriff and his assistant last Thursday, Sinai Leftists are reporting. Mohamed Selim Abdel Meguid Sharif and Islam Mohamed Mohamed Ali were brutalized and sexually abused by the police officers, in a "torture orgy" which started on 1am Thursday 5 October, and lasted for hours till the Dawn Prayers, the Sinai Leftists charged.
No more information is available for now regarding the reasons for the two citizens' arrest, but the Sinai Leftists promised to come forward with the names of the torturers and more details about their cases soon.
No more information is available for now regarding the reasons for the two citizens' arrest, but the Sinai Leftists promised to come forward with the names of the torturers and more details about their cases soon.
UPDATE: Ali Zalat of Al-Masri Al-Youm wrote Tuesday a frontpage report on the Arish torture cases. It turns out the two young men were standing in the street at midnight, talking, doing nothing, when a police van pulled over, and an officer rudely asked for their IDs. Mohamed presented the officer with his ID; Islam told him his is lost, but he had a receipt for the new ID back at his home, and begged him to allow him to walk home to bring the receipt and the copy of the police report about the loss of his ID card.
That wasn't good enough. The officer levelled insults and all sorts of swearwords against the two young men, and ordered them to get into the police car.
Later in the police station, Mohamed's mobile phone rang, and he did the unforgiven sin of answering it... That's when the police officer went out of his office with an insectiside can, he sprayed both their faces and caused them temporary blindness... brought other soldiers and started a torture orgy, where the two citizens were stripped off their clothes, and whipped with leather belts, sticks, and then sexually abused before they released by dawn...
Related link: Sinai torture fields
Tags: 
Egypt, Human rights, Left
Egypt, Human rights, Left
Reader Comments (4)
And why did they stop at dawn prayers?? may be the officers are fasting?
is it 7aram to torture ppl if u r fasting?
I think we need a fatwa in this matter
So, Manal, with all respect, a) why are you implying that these officers are only Muslims? Corrupt officers and officials are only Muslims? That I call prejudge or racism (in a in a broader meaning).
b) And why you're intermingling the whole thing with Islam and Ramadan? Since when the Egyptian government are seeking legitimacy for their ill acts in fatwas?
c) As you blame those who take whatever fatwas they are told without doing research for themselves, so what about people who categorically make false assumptions and unproved claims about a religion and it's followers?
christians do not get employed in state security. but I'm sure they consider this discrimination and not a good thing.
"Two citizens were tortured by the First Arish Police Station sheriff and his assistant last Thursday"
And there are no Christian police officers, mukhbers, or even Lawa't?
(ps I have nothing against Christian and I certainly repect everyone's freedom to believe in what they want but that's not the case here)