Thursday
Nov222007
DENIED: Egypt Bloggers Plan Parallel Torture Film Festival
Issandr El Amrani
Egypt: Bloggers Plan Parallel Film Festival on Police Torture:
Update: Blogger Wael Abbas, who released some of the first torture videos, is denying that any such festival is taking place - see comments.
Egyptian bloggers have announced that, while the Cairo film festival is taking place from 27 November to 7 December, they will hold a parallel festival in which a "Golden Whip" will be awarded to the best video showing "controversial acts of torture allegedly committed by the security authorities."Also, Hossam points out that YouTube has pulled down the Egyptian police torture page.
Two policemen received three-month jail sentences on 5 November for mistreating a detainee. A video of the incident, filmed with a mobile phone, caused an outcry among human rights activists and enabled identification of the two police officers.
Update: Blogger Wael Abbas, who released some of the first torture videos, is denying that any such festival is taking place - see comments.
Reader Comments (3)
[...] tell Medved that the torturing “security authorities” are supposed to be the bad guys. Via the Arabist, which is a good english-language source for regular news on Egypt’s democracy movement. I [...]
this is not true
afp published it before
and we denied it at that time
if i remember it was last june
what the hell are those afp guys doing !!!
Not AFP this time, Wael. RSF.