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Friends of Humanity International call the Egyptian authorities to investigate two incidents of torture

Date: 14. 1. 2009
Doc. Nr: EG/ME/301/09/E

 One of the two incidents was of most shameful
Friends of Humanity International call the Egyptian authorities to investigate two incidents of torture

Friends of humanity international called the Egyptian authorities to investigate the terrible incident of torture against the Egyptian teacher Ihab Mohamed Abdou Shabakah, who was detained and questioned at the Police Station of Ras Al Bar / Damietta on the twentieth of November 2008.

The “Friends of Humanity” in its messages to the Egyptian Prime Minister and ministries of interior, justice and education, said that arresting of Ihab Mohammad Abdou Shabakah (24 years), a computer teacher at the School of Ras Al Bar marine secondary, and torturing him at a Detectives unit in the province of Damietta shamefully by Captain Ahmad Al Sherbini Al Aosiah, and assistant Detective Ahmed Rabee' and a group of police staff at police station, is considered a flagrant violation of the rights of the prisoner in accordance with unjust and unjustified torture against teacher Shabakah.

They pass a wand of the hands and feet - the highest bottom of the hands and feet - and suspended me on something in the air from both sides of the stick, pending like a lamp, my head down and my hands and my feet tied up, beaten and hitting all on my face and my back, and then they took off my trousers and underwear and inserted a stick for a distance of one or two cm in my ass and threatening me by electric shocks.

Then I was released after threatening me by rape and murder if I tried to say anything about the torture and rape, which occurred with me in the police station. "

And about the second incident of torture the Human rights group has confirmed that the complaint related to the fact that members of police staff in the governorate of Kafr El Sheikh on November 18, 2008, beat and insulted the Egyptian citizen Mohammad Al Wardani (26 years) - a Student in the second Division Institute of Social Work in Kafr El Sheikh - he had serious injuries in different parts of his body.

When the student tried to clarify the issue for doing nothing wrong, the police arrested him and took him to the police station, there they attacked him again, where he was released the next day. According to the complaint; members of detectives who tortured him were Detective Chief Yasser Abu Al Kheir, and Associate Department of Investigation Police Mustafa Hasanein, as well as a group of undercover police force, who were dressed in civilian clothes.

The organization stressed that Mr. Wardani and Mr. Shabakah submitted complaints to prosecutors in each of Shatta in Damietta, and Desouq in Kafr El Sheikh, but authorities did not take serious action to punish the perpetrators nor done justice for victims.

Gerald Kralik, Chief of the "Friends of Humanity International"  mentioned in his letters that "torture has no place in States that apply the law and respect the dignity of citizens, and that does not conform with the way the Egyptian government has said it wants to establish and apply the rule of law".

Also he urged the Government according to his saying, “to Order to form an independent commission to conduct investigations on these two incidents and to provide results to the competent judicial bodies to carry out its natural role in the prosecution of the perpetrators of Egyptian Investigation and security; who practice torture at police stations against innocent citizens, and to compensate these two people for their injustice.”

The “Friends of Humanity” asked the Egyptian government to the rehabilitation of many detectives and police staff and urged them to respect citizens and work to preserve the dignity of prisoners and instruct strict orders to all government personnel and police detectives to stop all forms of torture of citizens and prisoners.

Vienna, 14. 01. 2009

 
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