مركز النديم لتأهيل ضحايا العنف والتعذيب

 Egyptian security authorities kidnap activist Philip Rizk to an unknown destination

(Philip Rizk in the peaceful march 'to Gaza'. Click to enlarge photo. Photo by Per Bjorklund.) 

Yesterday, the 6^th of February 2009, Egyptian security forces stopped a number of activists from the Egyptian Popular Campaign in solidarity with the Palestinian people who had organized a "towards Gaza" campaign". The police stopped them for hours in front of the Abu Zaabal police station and eventually arrested activist, journalist and AUC piostgraduate student Philip Rizk inside the police station before taking him away in a car with concealed numbers to an unknown destination.

When a number of activists tried to follow the car to identify its destination, they were stopped at a police check point. A police general seized identification papers of Dr. Mostafa Hussein from Nadim Center and physically aggressed him.