report- The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights

In this section, EOHR monitors 11 cases, concerning the arbitrary detention without any charges, and 11 cases, concerning the death of citizens inside the police stations because of torture or ill-treatment. It was clear that torture has been practiced in most police stations in a wide-range, according to the information that EOHR has received during its campaign against torture and ill-treatment of citizens inside the police stations from 2001 January to 2002 March. EOHR was very doubtful about the death of many citizens because of torture and ill-treatment by the policemen in police stations. All of field investigations, the fact-finding missions, the reports of the investigations and the forensic medicine proved that these victims were tortured till death by the policemen during the detention period and that breaches the recommendations of the UN committee of human rights. This committee asserted that the detainee shall be informed of the cause and place of detention and has the right to present a written or oral complaint.

Moreover, torture not only degrade the victims, but this report also proves that torture detract them from their right to life.

This report includes cases of many victims who died as a result of torture and ill-treatment as follows:

On 25\2\2002, he was arrested by a police force from the investigation unit in El-Waraq police station.

He was taken to El-Waraq police station, where he was detained for 4 days. On 1^st March 2000, he was taken to 6^th October police station, where he was detained for 5 days without any charge. The detention of the aforementioned lasted till his brother , Abdallah Nour, who was accused of murder in 6^th October City , was arrested .

On 9\3\2000, the EOHR presented a complaint no.160 to the head of El Haram prosecution, and the head of 6^th October police station.

During his detention, he was subjected to several violations, such as insulting and beatings in different parts of his body.

On 29\12\2001, the police force of El-Saff police station arrested him and ordered him to work as a detective. However, when he refused to do so, the officer of investigation Unit in El-Saff police station sent him to El-Saff prosecution with the charge of having drugs. Although he was sent to the police station to be released on bail, according to the prosecution order, he was detained for 8 days without any legal reason in the police station.

On 30\12\2001, Sha’ban Tammam Muhammad was arrested by an officer and was presented to the prosecution. He was accused of having drugs because he refused to work as a detective ( as his family said) Although the prosecution decided to release him on bail, which he paid, he was detained in the police station without any legal charges.

On 1\1\2002, Aly Fahmy Mouhab El-Dein was arrested and sent to prosecution with the charge of having weapon without license. Even when the prosecution decided to release him on bail, which he paid, he was detained without any legal reason in the police station.

On 5\8\2001, he was arrested by Mr. Muhammad Abdel-Salam, the investigation assistant of El-Salam police station, at 6:30 p.m. He was taken by the police force, headed by officer, Youssef El-Adly, to unknown zone. When his family searched him and found him in the Security Directorate of Cairo, where he was detained for a day, and was sent to El-Nozha police station, where he was detained for 5 days.

On 13/8/2001, EOHR sent complaints to the authorities, the public prosecutor, the Minister of Interiors, the head of the inspection and supervision department, and the head of the public relationships and information in the Ministry of Interior.

On 15/5/2001, he was arrested and detained for 23 days without any legal reason in El-Darb El-Ahmer police station. He was subjected to ill-treatment as follows:-

On 5/6/2001, EOHR sent complaint no.83 to the officials, the Minister of Interior, the public prosecutor, the general attorney and the head of El-Darb El-Ahmer prosecution.

He was charged in an administrative case No.2679 of 2000, and was detained in Embaba police station for 30 days pending investigation.

On 28/3/2000, he was released from the prosecution. However, he was deported to Embaba police station, where then he was detained till 14/4/2000, and then he was deported to unknown place, where he was detained till 29/4/2000.

On 29/4/2000, EOHR sent a complaint no.271to the officials, the minister of interior, the head of Giza prosecution, the public prosecutor.

On7/1/2002, he was arrested and detained in the investigation unit of El-Saff police station without any reason and for 4 days.

On 14/1/2002, presented a complaint to the authorities, the public prosecutor, the minister of interiors, the head of El-Saff prosecution, the head of inspection and supervision unit in the ministry of interiors.

On 2/1/2001, he was arrested by the officers of the investigation unit in El-Saff police station and was ordered to work as a detective. When he refused, he was deported to El-Saff prosecution and charged with having drugs. Then, he was released on bail on 5/1/2002. After that he was deported to El-Saff police station, where he was detained in the investigation unit without any reason for 6 days. During his detention, he was subjected to the ill-treatment as follows:-

On 9/1/2002, EOHR sent an urgent appeal to the officials, the public prosecutor, the head of El-Saff prosecution, the minister of interior, and the head of inspector and supervision department, with a complaint No.23.

On 21/10/2001, he was arrested and deported with his kid to El-Agouza police station, where he and his kid were detained in the investigation unit for a day. He was forced to sign an empty form in order to release him with his kid, who is 6-year old and has a heart disease. He thinks that the officers do all those acts to force him to settle some financial matters with his wife. In this regard, EOHR sent an urgent appeal to the officials to investigate his detention without any reason in El-Agouza police station.

On22/1/2002,Tuesday, he was arrested by four officers, one of them was a security state officer, in El-Maradd st in the International Book Fair in Cairo. He was taken to the police station of the fair, after that he was detained in Nasr City police station 2. Four hours later , he was deported to the state security building in Lazoghli where he stayed for two days during which he was subjected to ill-treatment in the following forms:

Address: El Wasta – Tera’a El Leil – Building no.74 next to El Ahli Bank – Beni Sweef.

On 6/2/2000, he was arrested by an officer as he said, some soldiers and one of Aly’s neighbors, who is in conflict with Aly on a building. He had been beaten in his flat, which has been destroyed, before he was taken to the police station of El-Wasstta, where he was detained without any legal reason. He was subjected to ill-treatment as follows:-

On 10/2/2000 , EOHR sent complaint no. 148 to the officials, the public prosecutor, the minister of interior, and the head of inspection and supervision, in order to investigate the legal reasons for his detention and the torture.

He was arrested by the police station of Omraneyya on the 5^th of November 2001 and sent to the police station, where he was kept in one of the rooms of the state security Investigations office. At 11:30 he was presented to the head of the state security Investigations office and during the Investigations he was harassed and badly treated and this lasted for the three days that he spent in the state security Investigations office. During this period of time Moheb was treated as following:

EOHR sent a complaint to the officials in order to call for an investigation in the imprisonment of the above mentioned person and the harassment and bad treatment he received while he was there. The complaint number is 134 on the date of 28^th of October 2001 and it was sent to all of::- (the Public Prosecutor, the Minister of Interiors, and the head of the Inspection Administration in the Ministry of Interiors).

On the 3^rd of January 2001 at 7:00 am one of the police officers arrived with a police force from Hadaek El Kobba police station to the house of the above mentioned person, who was arrested because one of his former enemies was a police officer. This person asked the family of the victim to pay an amount of money in order to let him go, but the family refused.- So a decision was made to arrest the above mentioned person and to imprison him in Wady Natroun prison, but his father appealed and he got his son's release on the 8^th o January 2001 and Mohamed was moved from the prison back to the police station of Hadaek El Kobba.

-On the 13^th of January 2001 the family of Mohamed got the news about their son's death in the police station of Hadaek El Kobba. Here the father tells us what happened on 13/1/201: "A person arrived at our place and told us that Mohamed arrived to the Hadaek El Kobba police station and that he died and is lying in the corridor of the state security investigations office. We went to the police station and found Mohamed lying in the corridor as we were told and he was wearing white trousers only and the signs of lots of beating were all over his arms, neck and chest and also signs of electric shocks were there, too. Around the shoulders and feet there are marks of rope and during this I called for a health inspector, who examined the body, which lost blood from the nose, ears and mouth, and all this was written down in the interrogation. The prosecutor asked the police officer/ Hamdy and the police officer/ Mahmoud Farrag and the head of the state security intelligence of the police station of Hadaek El Kobba, and they all decided that Mohamed came to the police station tired and suffering from pains in his heart. The prosecutor wrote down the bruises found on the body and they were put in the report number 399/2001 administrative Hadaek El Kobba.

The body was moved to the Zeinhom morgue, where samples were taken for the analysis and in order to find out the reason of Mohamed's death. A police car was present during the funeral and the burial. The Family made a complaint accusing the officers within the state security investigations office of torturing the citizen/ Mohamed Samir Aboul Wafa until his death.

During the month of March 2001 the citizen Khaled Mohamed Ahmed was arrested with 3 of his friends and they were put in the Ein Shams police station and were accused of taking drugs (bango) and they were sent to the prosecution of Ein Shams and the prosecutor decided to let them out after paying an mount of 50 LE each.

-The state security investigations office of Ein Shams police station released the 3 friends, but Khaled was kept in the police station without any legal reason, and he was kept there for a couple of days until his family was told by the head of the state security investigations office by telephone to go to the police station in order to receive the body of their brother, where the family was told that Khaled died because of an over dose of drugs.

-The family made a complaint to the prosecution of Ein Shams accusing the police officers in the Ein Shams police station of killing the citizen Khaled Mohamed Ahmed. This accusation came after the family got to know through the medical report, that the death of their son was caused by haematomata (blood collection) in the head, which is in accordance with the story they heard from the police station. EOHR sent complaints to the officials asking for a closer investigation of this case.

Address/ Bahteem, Abou Bakr El Sedeek str., infront of Mahmoud Sakr Hospital

On the 27^th of March 2001 at 7:30 am, while Mosaad was having breakfast with his mother and other people, the officer Abdel Nasser Zidan of the state security investigations office of the second police station of Shoubra El Kheima and his assistants raided the house and the officer shot 3 shots on Mosaad: one hit Mosaad's left eye, another between his eyebrows, and the last in his chest. After one hour of shooting Mosaad a small police car came to the house and took the body rapped in a blanket.

-The mother says the story as following: "It was about 7 in the morning when I was out of the house throwing the garbage when I found Mosaad, my son, standing on the street chatting with his friends. I asked him when he came back from the village- he said I came to give you the money that my brother is sending to you, because Mosaad was working with his brother in Menya Samnoud. He was standing with his friends talking and he told me that he wanted to have breakfast, so he gave me the money and I bought breakfast- fool, bread and ta'meyya. When I came home, I found his friends so I invited them over to have breakfast with Mosaad, so they came and sat on Mosaad's bed and we all ate breakfast together. I went to the kitchen to get water for Mosaad, the house door was open and an officer with two detectives came in and he asked me about Mosaad and told me that he came here to kill my son. He stood at the door of Mosaad's room and shot him while saying: I came here to kill you son of a "…". When they shot him I started screaming so he said to the two detectives: take this woman, the daughter of a "…" downstairs. So they dragged me to the floor below us and they dragged Mosaad's friends to their police car. On my way downstairs I heard my son screaming three times then he was silent. An hour later we heard the noise of a car entering the street, which was a small police car. After a while I saw them getting out of the house with my son rapped in a blanket, and the officer looked at me and said: Didn't I tell you that I will kill him? And here I killed him and I will take him, and we will see what you can do, you daughter of a "…". I fainted and afterwards the prosecution came and heard my words. They took the blanket and the bullets which fell under Mosaad's bed and I did not see my son again until the day of his burial, when the police was the one burying him.

Witness/ Hanem Ahmed El Mody, the owner of the building, where Mosaad was living:

"At about 7 in the morning I heard noises from above so I opened the door and called on Omm Mosaad "what's going on?". Then I found two detectives dragging her to my apartment and she kept saying that they will kill Mosaad. Afterwards we heard Mosaad's voice twice, then there was silence until the police car came and Mosaad was rapped in a blanket and his blood was pouring out of it. A while afterwards they came and searched my apartment and the officer told Omm Mosaad: You see, I killed him. Now show me what you can do".

He saw Mosaad in the morgue when he went to receive his body, and he found Mosaad shot: - between the eyes

The family made a complaint to the Public Prosecution accusing the officer Abdel Nasser Zeidan of killing Mosaad Ahmed El Sayyed Abou Seif deliberately.

On the 29^th of March 2001 Ashraf Ibrahim El Sharkawy was arrested by a police force from the police station of Badawy village, El Mansoura governorate, and this because his father made a complaint to the police accusing his son of bad behavior, but what happened is that Ashraf died a couple of hours after he arrived to the police station. Afterwards the body of the above mentioned person was sent on a car back to his house, where the father was outraged when he knew about his son's death. He carried his son's body back to the police station and a number of the village inhabitants gathered around the police station, where they shouted slogans, but after a while the crowd was kept under control when the leading police officers of Dakahleya security arrived to the police station.

The inspection done on the body of Ashraf showed the presence of "injuries in the feet and knees of the above mentioned person" and also there is and investigation by the prosecution of Mansoura governorate in the death case of Ashraf inside the police station of Badawy village. The prosecution also decided to call for a forensic doctor in order to find out the reason for the death, the date of the death and whether Ashraf was killed or not.

On the 25^th of April 2001 a police force from El Raml police station arrested the above mentioned person in front of his house. The police arrested Hussein, took of all his clothes, started beating him all over and also dragged him on the floor until he reached El Raml police station. As soon as he arrived there he was interrogated and in the interrogation it was written that a pocket knife without a license was found with Hussein, so he stayed in the police station until the next day, when he was presented to the public prosecution, which ordered his release with the guarantee of his home. But the decision of the prosecution was not executed and the above mentioned person was held in the police station without any reason. Furthermore, the security men of the police station did not allow the father of Hussein or any other relatives to enter the police station or even to send food for their son. In the morning of the 30^th of April the father of Hussein was called by El Raml police station and as soon as he met the head of the state security investigations office, he was told that his son died as a result of taking drugs, which caused an acute circulatory failure, and that his son's body was already moved to the morgue. After the father of Hussein saw the body of his son, he found bruises, injuries and marks of torture all over his son's body. The forensic doctor examined the body in order to identify its bruises, how they most probably were done, their date of happening and whether this is a criminal case or not.

The police forced the father of Hussein to carry the body and burry it in the presence of the police without informing any relatives. The police also threatened him that if he informed anyone of what happened, then the rest of the family will suffer like Hussein did. EOHR made complaints to the officials in order to investigate this case.

On the 29^th of April 2001 while the above mentioned person was held in police custody for the time of the interrogation in the First Police Station of Nasr City, his wife/ Shaima'a Abdel Hamid was caught putting narcotic substances in his food. She was put in the women's jail in the police station and when her husband knew about that he was outraged. So the police officers harassed him, beat him all over, and put him in a room alone within the police station, where they undressed him and ordered him to stand on a pile of bricks that was inside the room. As soon as they left the room he got dressed, but when the police officers came back and found that he did not obey them, they again harassed him, but this time they found he had a sharp metal instrument in his hand (the arm of a spoon), and he started accusing them of flirting with his wife, but they were able to tie him up and they pushed him on the pile of bricks and started beating him up all together with the police officer, the accused (Ahmed Saber Aly), who pushed his pocket knife into Nader's body. Then they dragged Nader out of the police station while still beating him.

1- Bruises of the victim on his face, forehead, neck, chest, left shoulder, back- these are fresh bruises which occurred because of a contact or hit with a solid body or bodies with a rough surface whatever its kind and it could have been caused as it was mentioned in the report of the prosecution.

2- Cuts present in the back of the left foreleg are fresh cuts with a cut wound, which happened because of a hit by a solid body or bodies with a sharp edge whatever its kind, and these are slight cuts in their nature and they included only the skin layers and did not reach the muscles.

3- The cuts described in the report and which were seen on the left hand are fresh and deep-reaching to the fat layer under the skin. They occurred because of a hit with a solid instrument with a sharp edge, which could not be the instrument described in the repot.

4- The described cut and the view of the forelegs' tissues as a result of the stabbing by a solid instrument with a sharp edge and a pointed corner whatever its kind, might occur as described in the report, by using a knife or something similar, but it might not occur by using the other metal instrument (the spoon's arm) and the use of this instrument resulted in a deep cut of one the primary foreleg veins.

5- The cause of the death is mainly the deep cut in the left foreleg, which resulted in a cut of the left foreleg vein. This cut was followed by strong bleeding, which resulted in an acute circulatory and respiratory failure.

The General Prosecution accused Ahmed Saber Mohamed Aly El Sayyed of the following:

Beating the victim Nader Fathy El Sayyed with a pocket knife in different areas of his left leg which caused several cuts and injuries mentioned in the report. He did not intend to kill him, but the beating led to the victim's death as explained in the reports.

He possessed a pocket knife in the absence of a personal or occupational necessity.

The case was registered under the number 687/2001 and it was sent to court, and many sessions took place. On the 16^th of February 2002 the court ruled on the case of the accused Ahmed Saber Mohamed Aly El Sayyed the following:

First: Ahmed Saber Mohamed Aly should spend 7 years of hard labor and pay the court expenses.

Second: To refer the case to the specialized, primary Court of Northern Cairo without any expenses.

- On the 29^th of October 2001 the citizen Ahmed Taha Hussein got into an argument with a detective infront of his house, and the detective promised Ahmed that he will come back for revenge. After a couple of hours the detective came back with a number of other detectives and police officers who arrested the above mentioned person and dragged him to the police station of Kowisna at about 7:30 pm of the same day under the pretext that he has to meet the head of the state security investigations office. As soon as he was in the state security investigations office they started harassing him with no reason and the torture continued until 11:00 pm, the "hour of death", and then he was kept in detention in the police station. When the officer in charge came to work, he asked the other prisoners about him and they told him he was asleep, but later he found out that Ahmed was dead and he informed the prosecution.

- The prosecution went to the police station of Kowisna, where the body was examined and this continued until the early hours of the next day, when the prosecutor re-examined the agenda of the police center's affairs and he found "eleven mistakes".

- The prosecution interrogated all the officials within the police station about the case and the torturing of the above mentioned person. But during the interrogation, the answers of the officers and detectives were contradicting. The security forces buried the body and did not allow any of Ahmed's relatives to leave their houses and this continued for another day during which they were harassed and beaten whenever they complained about or objected to what happened.

The stomach (Intestines are generally intact and congested except for the liver, which showed a degree of fibrosis and the urinary bladder, which was full of dark colored urine)

The samples (Chemical analysis no. 692K of tissue samples taken from his intestines was clear indicating that the body and intestines were free of any type of narcotic or poison)

The body of the deceased Ahmed Taha Hussein did not show evidence of criminal violence or resistance, neither by clinical inspection nor by autopsy.

Results of tissue analysis of the body undertaken by us showed that they were free of any narcotic substances or suspected poisoning. Death was probably because of a pathological condition that was not revealed by autopsy.

On the 7^th of December 2001 the above mentioned person was arrested by two detectives from the police station of Shobra Kheit who took him to the police station in order for him to meet with the head of the state security investigations office. Only a couple of hours later was he moved to a hospital, where he died there.

The family and relatives of Hesham went to the police station in order to know the reason for his arrest, but they were told there that he was sick and that they sent him to the hospital. Minutes later the relatives gathered in front of the hospital door.

When one of Hesham's relatives was allowed to see his body and he informed the rest of the family members of the injuries he saw on Hesham's body, the relatives all gathered in front of the police station and started throwing stones on the building, but they were kept under control by the security leaders and no one was arrested or hurt during this incident.

According to his telling of the story, here is how he described the body of Hesham:

The prosecution decided to get a forensic doctor in order to identify the injuries and bruises and to know the reason for the death of Hesham.

EOHR called the officials (complaint number 229 of the date 26/12/2001) to investigate the death case of the citizen Hesham Ahmed Abdel Ghany inside the police station of Shobra Kheit.

On the 23^rd of February 2002, the second day of the Bayram Feast, the above mentioned person found a police force from El Waily police station asking about his brother, but when the police force did not find the brother, they arrested Ahmed so as to force the brother to turn himself to the police. So he was arrested instead of his brother and he stayed in the state security investigarions office, where the police officers harassed him and started beating him all over his body. During his stay in the police station he was harassed as following:

- beaten with an iron handcuff on his chest, the back of his head, his neck and his chin

Following this treatment, the above mentioned person lost his consciousness (or died) and was sent to one of the hospitals in order to get a treatment, but the administration of the hospital refused to take in the victim and decided that he was already dead. Nevertheless, the hospital agreed to write a report in which it said that Ahmed came to the hospital with some bruises and that he died later as a result of an acute circulatory failure.

In the morning of the next day (24/2/2002) the victim's body was buried at 8:00 am and there was a big police and security presence all through the funeral ceremony. This police force prevented the victim's family of praying for him in the mosque next to his house and of burying the victim's body in the tomb of his family in Salah Salem.

The eyewitness, who was tied up with Ahmed in the same handcuffs confessed that Ahmed was beaten by an iron handcuff all over his body; on his chest, neck and the back of his head, and when he asked for a glass of water no one gave it to him, and within almost 3 hours the victim died.

On the 26^th of January 2002 Sayyed Khalifa went out of Sokeil village with his friend Mostafa Helmy in order to visit their friend, who lives in Nasr city and who finished his army duty. That is why they went to visit him, in order to celebrate this occasion. Sayyed and his friend did not return to their homes on that day and on the second day we started looking for him and we asked about him in all the police stations and hospitals in our area. When he did not appear until the 29^th of January 2002 we went to the police station of our village, the police station of Oseem and we reported his disappearance and an interrogation of his disappearance was written with the number 502 administrative Oseem on the 29^th of January 2002 (a copy of the interrogation is attached). On the 6^th of March we knew that Mostafa Helmy, my son's friend, was found on the street in a very bad condition and that he was moved to Al Agouza hospital.

Mostafa informed us that Sayyed is in the National Hospital of Bulaak El Dakrour, but when we searched for a while we found out that there is no hospital with this name. So we started again searching in the police stations and hospitals but we could not find him. On that same day, Sheikh Mahmoud Lotfy, a member of the People's Assembly of Oseem and El Warrak area, told us that Sayyed is present in the Second Police Station of Nasr City and that Mostafa Helmy was threatened not to inform Sayyed's family about that. And in fact, an interrogation was made in the police station of Agouza on the torturing of Mostafa and arresting Sayyed in the Second Police Station of Nasr City. Communication started between the police station of Agouza and the Second Police Station of Nasr City, but after a number of trials we could not find Sayyed and no one of the Second Police Station of Nasr City told us where he was or what has happened to him.

In the morning of the 7^th of March 2002 the Mayor of our village called for us and we found a police car taking Sayyed's uncle, Aly Fahmy Atteya Kamal El Din, Sayyed's brother Diab and the father, Khalifa Eissa, to the Zeinhom morgue in order to identify the body. And in fact the body was identified by the uncle/ Aly Fahmy, who found some bruises and injuries on the body.

An interrogation was written on this case in the prosecution, and the body was examined by the public prosecutor, who identified the injuries on the body. Also a forensic doctor was called to identify the reasons for the death and its date of happening. On the same day at 7 pm we were called by the general/ Abdel Wehab Khalil from the first police station of Nasr City, who told us that we will receive the body the next day, where we will pray on the body in the Sayyeda Aisha mosque. But when the family refused, he cancelled the prayer and decided that the funeral will be in the presence of security forces and that the burying will be in the tombs of the family inside Sokeil village.

In the morning of Friday the 8^th of March 2002 we went to Zeinhom morgue, where we received the body at almost 10:30 am and afterwards the funeral started and was escorted by six police cars and six central security cars. This continued until half the way, where only the six police cars escorted us, but at the entrance of the village we found the forces of Oseem police station waiting for us and they forced us to use another road to the mosque next to the tombs. After the prayer the body was buried in the tombs of the family and the security forces stayed until the funeral was over on the same day.

The prosecution started its interrogation in that case and a forensic doctor was called to identify the reason of the death. Also the accused officers were interrogated and the witnesses said what they have seen and the officers were arrested until the case was over.

The forensic report number 174/2002 regarding case 1172 for the year 2002, criminal- Nasr City, registered by the collective code of 165/2002 Northern Cairo proved that:

- the victim Sayyed Khalifa Eissa through the examinations was found to have the following bruises:

- bruise seen and described at the end of the genitals, which occurred by an electric shock

- the injuries seen and described at the back of the head and leg, which were caused by an instrument with a rough surface of whatever nature

- the rest of the injuries seen and described at the end of the legs and arms were changed through time because of the swelling and curing changes. But according to the description before, these injuries occurred because of a hit with a solid instrument or instruments, whatever its kind, and it was found out that some of these instruments, because of their length and width could be a whip or stick or something similar, as written in the prosecution report and these injuries occurred on different dates because of the early and late stages of these injuries, which proves the repetition of these acts of torture during the period mentioned in the report. These injuries caused inflammations, because of the infection all over the head, which caused infected septic inflammation inside the head, which spread to the blood vessels inside the skull and caused a septic inflammation of the brain meninges.

- The in juries and bruises of the victim happened at a time in accordance with the dates and the period of time that was mentioned in the report of the prosecution and by Mostafa Helmy Abdel Samie, that the victim was beaten by a whip and sticks for a number of days.

On the 12^th of May 2002 the head of the security intelligence office of the Imbaba police station and his assistant were sent to the Criminal Court on the account of torturing a citizen to death and forging public records. On the 23/24 of April 2001, head of the security intelligence office Elsayyed Saeed El Baghdady and chief Ehab Nagy Abdel Rahim assaulted and tortured Medhat Gaber Tadros in the police station for his accusation of robbery. The head of the security intelligence office electrified the victim's body which caused injuries that led to his death to force him to confess his robbery. The assistant of the security intelligence office forged the arrest record and untruthfully recorded that the victim Medhat Tadris fainted during his questioning and used the forged record and presented it to North Giza Accidents Prosecution. The prosecution started its investigation with the accused and ruled the temporary detention of the accused. The prosecution heard the testimony of three witnesses being

He stated that "while at home in Warraq area, Elsayyed El Boghdady, Ehab Nagy and others arrested me and took me to the Imbaba police station and while in one of the cells in the station I was surprised to find Medhat, accused in a robbery case, at the same place, then the head of the security intelligence office ordered him to strip, which he did. Then two people unknown to me tied him up; his arms and legs, and started kicking him with their arms and feet and sticks. Then the head of the security intelligence office electrified him in his left ear and lower part of his body. I heard screams followed by silence.

2) Nasr Gaber Tadros (brother of the victim, employee in the Horeyya hospital in Shobra El Kheima)

He stated that the first witness informed him of the death of his brother after being electrified and tortured during his detention and that the second accused was electrifying him.

She stated that her husband was arrested from their house intact and fully dressed and that the police officers took from the apartment a TV and an iron machine possessed by them, claiming they were stolen. The case is still being handled and a hearing has not been set yet.

[1] The prosecution sent the torture case to the court.

[2] The case was sent to Criminal Court of Cairo for the session on the 11^th of June 2002.

[3] The General Habib El Adly sent the police officer to the prosecution for the investigation of this case and the Criminal Court of Nasr City is investigating this case.