From Daily News Egypt:
Nine people gave testimony during the seminar; two Alexandria-based police officers, Ahmed Osman and Ahmed Melissy from the Sidi Gaber police station, were implicated in two of these incidents.
Samah Khalil described the injuries received by her father, Khalil, at the hands of a police force seeking the arrest of her brother, Shabaan.
“On Oct. 24, 2008, a huge group of men wearing civilian clothing arrived at 11 pm at our house. They looked like a criminal gang, carrying sticks, knives and bottles of petrol,” Samah Khalil told the seminar.
“As soon as dad opened the door, they threw a Molotov cocktail at him. His hands and legs set on fire and he ripped off his clothes as he tried to escape onto the roof.
“They followed him and got a piece of metal from a clothes-line and used it to break his leg before dragging him down the street by his legs for more than 150 meters while they kicked him in the head and hit him using their sticks,” she continued.
In a testimony carried by the Nadim Center for the Victims of Violence from Ahmed, who was not at the seminar, the victim said that he was beaten and tortured in the microbus on the way to the police station and in the station itself.
“One of them sat on top of me and strangled me while someone else said ‘kill him.’… He tried to strangle me three times and they took turns punching me in the head,” Ahmed’s testimony reads.
“[In the police station] they hit me again … then Ahmed Osman put his finger in my anus and then Ahmed Melissy did that, too … then they demanded that 14 others in the room do the same thing. The beating eventually stopped at around 10:30 pm.”
It eventually transpired that the police officers had got Ahmed mixed up with another, similarly-named man, wanted in connection with criminal charges.
He and his two sons were threatened with criminal detention if he brought charges against the police officers.
In a testimony carried by the Nadim Center for the Victims of Violence from Ahmed, who was not at the seminar, the victim said that he was beaten and tortured in the microbus on the way to the police station and in the station itself.
“One of them sat on top of me and strangled me while someone else said ‘kill him.’… He tried to strangle me three times and they took turns punching me in the head,” Ahmed’s testimony reads.
“[In the police station] they hit me again … then Ahmed Osman put his finger in my anus and then Ahmed Melissy did that, too … then they demanded that 14 others in the room do the same thing. The beating eventually stopped at around 10:30 pm.”
It eventually transpired that the police officers had got Ahmed mixed up with another, similarly-named man, wanted in connection with criminal charges.
He and his two sons were threatened with criminal detention if he brought charges against the police officers.
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