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341 Victim in Police Rape Video Identified

I join Hossam in tipping my hat to Al-Fagr journalist Wael Abdel Fattah for his investigative reporting. Details at 3arabawy and Sharqawi’s blog. Not sure about the wisdom of publicly identifying the victim, though. This is a rape case, and from what I’ve read, this man was too scared to press charges. Has he now changed his mind?
[tags]Egypt, Torture[/tags]

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1. […] That second video (which I won’t show here) shows a group of officers torturing a suspect – handcuffed, stripped from the waist down, and on the ground – by inserting a stick into his anus. Now Wael Abdel Fattah, the journalist who wrote the 27th November piece in El-Fagr, has published the names of the officers who carried out the torture, and tracked down and interviewed the victim, a bus driver. Sharqawi and Hossam el-Hamalawy cover the story and relay the victim’s account of how he came to be arrested, and of the horrific acts of torture perpetrated by the police. Both bloggers publish the victim’s name, which, although it’s in the public domain in El-Fagr, has caused debate, with one blogger, Elijah Zarwan, wondering at The Skeptic, whether this was the right thing to do. […]

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2. […] I was afraid this might happen. According to a small item buried in today’s Al-Ahram, the man identified by Al-Fagr’s journalist as the victim in the police rape video has denied any such thing happened and is suing the paper. Perhaps he was pressured into this. In any case, his denials and his lawsuit are certainly going to make it harder to press for an investigation and prosecutions. […]

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