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Beaten In Court
Kafr al-Dawar police investigation chief ordered beating the director of Nadim Center inside the court building and destroying the car of the human rights delegation.
A delegation of human rights organizations comprising of Nadim Center, Hisham Mubarak Law Center, The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights and the Legal Assistance Association for Human Rights headed to Kafr al Dawar to attend the court session set up for reviewing the appeal filed on behalf of the four torture victims who were charged with resisting authorities in the police report no 5931/2008. This trumped-up charge has been filed by the torturers themselves, including Ahmed Meqled, Kafr al-Dawar police investigation chief. In an attempt to disrupt its work, Meqled ordered a secret police personnel to assault the human rights delegation. To do that the secret policeman assaulted Dr Magda Adli, director of Nadim Center, and kidnapped her suitcase at the moment she was on the court's steps. As a result she slipped down the steps and fainted with a cut in her eyebrows. When the people around her tried to catch the man, thinking he was a pickpocket, they found out another bad surprise awaiting for them outside the court the delegation's car was destroyed. Unknown persons destroyed the mirrors and tires of the car belonging to Dr Mona Hamid, one of the delegation. When he was caught, the supposed pickpocket, Ahmed Anter Ibrahim, admitted being a private in Al Darrasa security forces and that he did what he did at the request of another policeman named Medhat. For their part, the delegation's lawyers filed a communique to the Public Prosecutor's Office charging Ahmed Meqled with inciting others to assault the human rights delegation. The Public Prosecutor's Office opened the case and started investigating witnesses and facts.
Today morning the Nadim Center and HMLC filed a communique to the Prosecutor-General documenting the torture facts and the torturers' names, including Meqled. Approving it, the communique was registered and entitled Damanhour' s Public Prosecutor's Office to take due process.
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The undersigned human rights organizations condemn this malevolent crime and all quelling measures that the Egyptian police services accustomed to practice. We think that kind of behavior has little to do with an individual behavior, but rather has everything to do with a tyrant regime's behavior, which moved from ordinary covert attacks to the overt ones. It seems like the regime has exhausted all kinds of attacks against anti-torture NGOs, ranging from closure to harassments on the streets, and began launching rude and blatant assaults within courts and before all.
What happened today will never discourage our will and will never stop us from exposing the daily and systematic torture approached by the Ministry of Interior. We will never surrender pursuing and helping victims to pursue their torturers in court rooms.
1- Al-Nadeem Center for Physical Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence
2- Hisham Mubarak Law Center
3- The Egyptian Organization for Community Participation Enhancement
4- The Egyptian Center for Child Right
5- Freedom of Thought and Speech Foundation
6- Al-Hilaly freedom Foundation
7- Al-hilaly bond in the Egyptian lawyers’ syndicate
8- Awlad ElArad Human rights Center
9- The Egyptian Democratic and Social Center
10- Committee for defending rights to Insurance
11- Arabic Network for Human rights Information
12- Horriya Center for Political Rights and Reinforcing Democracy
13- The coordinating committee on Trade Unions’ freedoms and rights
14- Arab Penal Reform Organization
15- The Legal Assistance Organization for Human Rights
16- The Arabic Foundation for Reinforcing Civil Society and Human Rights
17- Egyptian initiative for personal rights
18- Afaq Socialist Center
19- Center for Trade Unions and Workers Services
20- Socialist studies center
21- Cairo Institution for Human Rights Studies
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