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/ 20 November 2007
Egyptian bloggers, long at the forefront of exposing rights abuses, are planning an online festival of torture videos to run alongside the 31st Cairo Film Festival, local media reported on Tuesday. The parallel festival is the brainchild of a blogger named Walid, the Egyptian Mail reported.
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/ 5 November 2007
An Egyptian court on Monday jailed two police officers for three years for sodomising a detainee with a stick in torture shown in widely distributed video footage that sparked nationwide outrage. ”It’s not very common for an Egyptian court to convict police officers,” Human Rights Watch said.