مركز النديم لتأهيل ضحايا العنف والتعذيب

UPDATE: The case has been adjourned until Dec 28 after Shady's lawyers requested that the civil claim be announced and the police station's log book be made available to them.

El Nadeem Centre invites all who are interested in combatting torture, individuals involved in Human Rights or media institutions to join in solidarity with Shady Maged Sa’ad Zaghloul and his wife. He was arrested and tortured in 6th October City Police Station two. After having made a complaint to the prosecutor’s office and showing his injuries and being examined by a forensic doctor he was further subjected to torture in the Police Station and was injured again. He was examined once more by the forensic doctor after the failure of the Police from carrying out the orders of the Prosecutor’s office. The Police Officers tried to pressure him in to withdrawing his complaint using different methods, the last of which was his and his wife and baby daughter’s abduction from in front of the prosecutor’s office. They were taken to the Police Station and detained for four days until Shady was forced to withdraw his complaint with the Prosecutor’s office.

Shady returned to the Prosecutor’s office to prove that his withdrawal occurred under pressure and this pushed the prosecution to try the three police officers Sherif Samir Ahmed Metwally, Hazem Beltagy Ibrahim and Ahmed Samir Sha’ban on the charge of the use of cruelty and detention without cause.

The first session of this trial is on Monday 7 December 2009 in 6 October City Misdemeanor Court.