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Per Bjorklund

Claims of British collusion in torture spread to Egypt | World news | The Guardian - 0 views

  • A policy governing the interrogation of terrorism suspects in Pakistan that led to British citizens and residents being tortured was devised by MI5 lawyers and figures in government, according to evidence heard in court during a hearing brought on behalf of Binyam Mohamed, the British resident freed from Guantánamo last month.
  • number of British terrorism suspects have been tortured there, both before and after interrogation by MI5 officers; and they and their lawyers say there is clear evidence that British officials have been aiding and abetting their mistreatment. However, Khan, from Slough, Berkshire, is the first British national to allege British collusion in torture in Egypt
  • Khan says he was led along a corridor into a room where a number of people were being tortured from time to time. He says he was beaten around the body with sticks and subjected to occasional, unexpected electric shocks. His captors shouted at him and beat him if he tried to sit or lie down, he says, although he was occasionally allowed to rest. He says he received little food or drink. Around him, he says, were a number of other people who were also being beaten and tortured, including one man who spoke English with a British accent and prayed during beatings. From other cells within the prison he could hear screaming from both men and women throughout the day and night. During interrogations, which took place twice a day, he says he was asked in English about his friends and associates in Slough, Berkshire, in Crawley, West Sussex, and in east London
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    Allegations of British collusion in torture have widened to Egypt, where a young British man says he suffered appalling mistreatment during a week of illegal detention while being interrogated on the basis of information that he says can only have come from the UK.
حسام الحملاوي

There is Room for Everyone... Egypt's Prisons Before & After January 25 Revol... - 0 views

  • The number of prisoners in Egypt’s main prisons in 1986 was estimated at “34793” in addition to thousands of detainees in police stations and other places of detention
  • In 1990, the number of prisoners in Egypt reached “31890” prisoners
  • According to a report by an organization close to the government, the number of prisoners in 2012 was about “70,000”
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  • Major General Mostafa Baz, the Director of the Prisons Authority, declared that the number of prisoners in Egypt in 2016 is estimated at “80,000”
  • The number of prisoners in Egypt by mid-August 2016 was around 106,000 prisoners, “including 60,000 political prisoners.”
  • ANHRI found out that the number of legal places of detention is more than (504), which fall into the following categories: –  The old prisons built before January 25 Revolution (43) prisons. – The new prisons built after the revolution, whether the ones that receive prisoners, or the ones that are still under construction (19) prisons. – The central prisons scattered all over the cities and governorates of Egypt, not including Cairo, (122) central prison. – The various police stations and police departments in all the provinces and cities of Egypt (320) station and department.
Mohammed Maree

Egypt is one of 12 'internet enemies' at 3arabawy - 0 views

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    Egypt is among 12 countries which systematically repress internet users, says rights groups Reporters Without Borders (RSF). "The vitality of the Egyptian blogosphere on the international scene is far from being an advantage for the bloggers involved
حسام الحملاوي

'There is room for everyone' inside Egypt's prisons: ANHRI - Daily News Egypt - 0 views

  • There are 504 detention centres in Egypt, and the number of prisoners in Egypt by mid-August 2016 reached around 106,000 prisoners, including 60,000 political prisoners, according to a new in-depth report released Monday by the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI).
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