417 Brotherhood Blogger Identifies Torturer

Journalist and blogger `Abd al-Monim Mahmud has identified his torturer: He says officer Atif al-Hussaini (his real name?) tortured him for 13 days in the Nasr City State Security headquarters after he was arrested at an antiwar rally in 2003. He also accuses Ahmad Mussa, a journalist for the government’s flagship daily Al-Ahram, of conspiring with al-Hussaini to get him detained again. Mahmud believes he is the unnamed journalist Mussa accused of being sent by the Muslim Brotherhood to infiltrate the opposition daily Al-Dustur.

Mahmud has reason to be nervous. He told me that when he was released in June, the State Security officer assigned to his case told him that he was already writing his next detention order. (Thanks, Nora)

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