344 Man Identified as Rape Video Victim to Sue Paper

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.

[update: Hossam rightly notes in the comments to this post that I should update this post to include the news that the day after the al-Ahram story ran, the victim changed his mind again and decided to press charges.]

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  1. You need to update this posting. On the following day, Emad asked for the prosecution’s protection, and said he was coerced by the head of Boulaq Police Station to file this lawsuit against Al-Fagr.
    The fight is still on….

    Comment by Hossam — December 14, 2006 #

  2. Thanks, hossam, I had heard. Just haven’t had time to update the posting.

    Comment by The Skeptic — December 14, 2006 #

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