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Matthew Carrington | Egypt
Matthew Carrington | Egypt
Reuters piece up at the moment on the police-sodomy video that did the rounds a few weeks back. Elijah Zarwan gets in some good quotes on behalf of the human rights community, and Hisham Kassem pops in at the end to point out that, surprise surprise, apathy reigns.
However, the piece, which appears with a December 11 dateline, ignores a number of blog postings, including Hossam Hamalawy's, that suggest that not only has the victim been identified, but so have the perpetrators.
Time for Reuters to update this story.
However, the piece, which appears with a December 11 dateline, ignores a number of blog postings, including Hossam Hamalawy's, that suggest that not only has the victim been identified, but so have the perpetrators.
Time for Reuters to update this story.
Reader Comments (1)
uhhh...yes he was identified. One of the more tasteless cairo dailies, al fajr, did a whole spread on him a couple of days ago. Headline was something along the lines of Aymad el Kebir Raped in the Butt [muwakhitithi] with a Big Stick. The intrepid reporter went out to his village and convinced him to let al fajr take pix and interview him. Nice pix of him standing there in the yard looking depressed alongside stills of him being sodomized on the video. And a little column about the reporter's adventure (mughamara) in tracking him down.