Members of the Lawyers' Syndicate Freedoms Committee organized a protest outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday against what it regards as the public prosecutor's failure to hold policemen accused of torture and other human rights violations accountable
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information said today that the Egyptian security forces have released kidnapped activist Philip Rizk. Rizk was held blind-fold for five days in an unknown place and subjected to all kinds of mental abuse.
I was repeatedly questioned about everything and I was terrified. Although I was not abused physically, I was blind-folded all the time. Officers kept saying to me: "Do you know what we can do to you?", and I was threatened with long term imprisonment. Th