Egyptians are standing up for their rights. Brave Egyptians both men and women are standing up to gain their rights, to stop torture in Egypt and end the 30 years running emergency law that gave impunity to Egyptian Police officers who commit torture crimes. Systematic Egyptian Police brutality will have to end soon.
Breaking news: Another scandal! Egyptian Police attack silent stand participants who went to Khaled Said’s street. Hundreds of participants are being cornered and beaten up by the Egyptian police now in the small street were Khaled Said lived.
Police attacked and injured participants in the fifth silent stand on 20 August (10 Ramadan) who gathered at Khaled Said’s street as agreed with Khaled’s family.
When will this stop???
The silent stand has started in Egypt. Please join us and send us your photos. email your photos to: alshaheeed@gmail.com or upload on the fan page. We will update you soon on the silent stand in Alexandria and Cairo.
Friday 20th August is the time for our next silent stand. A stand against torture in Egypt and against the 30 years running emergency law.
We call on all our international supporters to join us by standing silent in their home or in any public place in their town.
Please send us photos of you standing silent dressed in black wherever you are. Please carry a sign with few words of support, a photo of Khaled or anything you like.
You are all invited to participate and please remember that your support does make a big difference. We are looking forward for your photos after tomorrow’s silent stand.
Please email your photos to: alshaheeed@gmail.com or upload them on the fan photos section.
The event details can be seen on our International Facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=148075095212199
Are you joining us?
After the video we posted earlier of the Egyptian police armored vehicle trying to run over Egyptian voters, another video has now surfaced showing the Egyptian police firing at voters in the 2005 elections. The video was captured during the siege of Damietta city in Egypt during the 2005 election. This is not a war zo…ne, this is just an Egyptian city during the 2005 elections in which Egyptian police fired at voters to stop them from approaching voting stations. 4 Egyptian voters were confirmed dead on the Election Day. Please watch this video and think: isn’t it time for an end of Emergency law in Egypt? Isn’t it time Egyptian police brutality comes to an end?
From the CNN website: This a must watch video.
This video sums up our struggle and what we Egyptians face on daily basis. We urge the world media to broadcast this video to expose Police brutality in Egypt. Can you help us reach out and get this video to the world media organizations please? The Egyptian police is using an armed police vehicle chasing Egyptians walking in the street behind a voting station. They try to run over some of them to scare them and stop them from voting. Some plain clothes policemen then come down of the armored vehicle with machetes, knives and sticks chasing people down the road while in the background there is a large police line and cordon that is preventing people from reaching to the voting station. This video sums up our struggle and what we Egyptians face on daily basis.
Must watch video: Egyptian Police Armoured vehicle chasing Egyptian voters in the street
The video is also on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g59_BzmbLn4
Policeman convicted by courts of torture and sexual torture of innocent victim and who was jailed for 3 years has been re-instated as a Policeman the day after coming out of jail!
Nabih is a policeman who was convicted and jailed for 3 years for torturing and sexual torture of an innocent citizen. The day after spending his jail term, the minister of internal affairs, has re-instated the policeman back and he kept his rank and position as if nothing has happened.
This outrageous act was a clear sign from the ministry of internal affairs that Policemen convicted of torture still has a place in the Police authority and that torture does not have any consequences to their career!
Source (Arabic) and Image of Policeman: http://www.youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=181978&SecID=97&IssueID=62
Washington Post: Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are the new tools of protest in the Arab world
Khaled Said is not the first Egyptian whom police allegedly beat to death. But his death has sparked a virtual revolution that is affecting Egypt’s tightly controlled society.
Said, a 28-year-old Egyptian businessman, was brutally beaten, his family and activists say, by two plainclothes police officers on June 6. An Interior Ministry autopsy claimed that Said suffocated after swallowing a bag of drugs he tried to hide from police. But a photograph of a shattered body that his family confirmed was his started circulating online. Teeth missing, lip torn, jaw broken and blood pouring from his head: It was difficult to square such trauma with suffocation. His family said he was targeted after he posted a video online allegedly showing police sharing profits of a drug bust.
Fares Barakat is a simple Egyptian who went to a friend’s party to celebrate his friend’s newly born baby (Aqeeqa gathering). Fares’s friend is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood group and the savage national security forces (a special police force) decided to pay his friend a visit to his house during this party. Fares asked for a search warrant from the police officer, the response he got was that police officers literally threw him from the fourth floor balcony of the building!
At the hospital, Fares was taken to the intensive care unit as he was in a critical condition. The police force then decided to handcuff Fares to his intensive care unit bed! Few hours later, another police force came and forced all doctors and Fares’s family out of the ICU. About an hour later, the police force went out with documents signed by Fares admitting committing a few crimes! When Fares’s lawyers went through the documents they found clear proofs of forgery and fabrication in the documents and the content.
Just another story of another victim in Egypt.
Source (Arabic): http://www.alnadeem.org/ar/node/109
A must watch! Too Scared to say it loudly video with English subtitles.
After spending considerable time, I have finally managed to get this video/song translated to English and translation added as caption and subtitles to the video. Please spread it everywhere and post to friends.
One message in many languages campaign
Members of the English Facebook page (We are all Khaled Said) have started a new ambitious campaign. We have written one paragraph in English that summarizes and explains our just and peaceful cause and our aims and objectives. We are now translating it to every language in the world we can translate to using our great energetic international supporters worldwide. We have already got few languages but we are looking forward for more and more languages so that we can deliver our message to all people of all languages on Earth.
Please visit the dedicated Facebook note page for this campaign: http://bit.ly/cwfWMC , add your language translation, suggest a translation correction/improvement or simply like/comment to show your support.
We have 2 simple objectives and aims: End torture in Egypt and End the 30 years running emergency law in Egypt that provides impunity and protection for Egyptian Policemen committing acts of torture and ill-treatment against Egyptian civilians.
This striking video shows an Egyptian Police officer hitting peaceful demonstrators so fiercely with a big wooden stick as if they are solid objects not human beings. The officer did that in front of tens of people, but he was never questioned (let alone tried in court) about his brutal physical offence. One of the demonstrators though, was jailed for 3 months guilty of hitting 13 (yes: 13) policemen!?!? Superman is back.
Amnesty International writing about Human rights oppression and impunity in Egypt: The article focuses on Khaled Said’s brutal killing and how the two officers who killed Khaled are NOT charged with murder, they are only charged with “using force during arrest” and “illegal arrest”!
Impunity is one of the great building blocks of the state of oppression in Egypt. Without government and security officials believing that their actions are beyond the reach of the law, torture might disappear, administrative detention would desist and trials might become fair.
This is an international scandal for those who participated in covering up Khaled Said’s murder:
Assessment issued by Duarte Nuno Vieira, Chief Forensic Pathologist, Professor of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Head of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine of Portugal (see attached CV) and Jørgen L.Thomsen, ChiefForensic Pathologist, Professor of Forensic Medicine, Head of the Institute of Forensic Medicine of Odense (see attached CV), concerning the forensic reports dated 10th June 2010 and 27th June 2010, following the autopsies performed on Khaled Mohamed Said Sobhi on 7th and 16th June, 2010.
The opinion expressed is based upon the forensic reports indicated above (an English version was provided) and upon a set of seven photographs, of which two show Khaled Mohamed Said Sobhi alive (Photos 1 and 2 attached), 3 in the morgue from the first autopsy (Photos 3, 4 and 5 attached) and two from the second autopsy (Photos 6 and 7 attached).
Thus:
1) The report of the first autopsy, performed on 7th June 2010, reveals that it did not comply with the minimum international standards for forensic autopsies and that there were numerous significant deficiencies. For example, the description of the macroscopic anatomopathological findings observed is manifestly inadequate: basic data such as the weight and individual characteristics of the various organs are not given; there was no histological study (always essential) or complementary imaging tests (which would have been very relevant in this case to prove the absence of lesions), and the dissection technique used (as shown in the description of the opening incisions provided in the second autopsy) was inadequate for the situation (for example, the neck should never have been dissected using a single mentopubic incision), etc.
This image is not from Palestine. This image is from Egypt. What on earth can anyone do to deserve this treatment? Even if he was a serial killer he doesn’t deserve that treatment let alone a law abiding citizen participating in a peaceful demonstration like in this case.
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