imad-alkabir

/ 20 November 2007

Bloggers plan online festival of torture videos

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.

By Staff Reporter

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/ 5 November 2007

Egypt jails police in sodomy torture case

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.

By Emad Abdul Maqsud

Bloggers plan online festival of torture videos

Egypt jails police in sodomy torture case

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