Military police investigations has summoned colleague and lawyer Ahmed Ragheb, director of Hisham Mubarak Law Center tomorrow, Tuesday, 10 a.m. (22 Waley El Ahd street – Hadaek El Kobba – Cairo) regarding the attack by military police on the center on the 3^rd of February 2011.

Raghib had filed a complaint to the military prosecutor against military police regarding the break into the center, the destruction of its property and the arrest of all present on the 3^rd of February. It was therefore expected that Raghib be summoned by the military prosecutor and not the military police.

Accompanying Raghib tomorrow will be a number of lawyers among them representatives of human rights organizations.

Background

The breaking into the Hisham Mubarak Law Center

On the 3^rd of February 2011 at about 2.30 pm an individual claiming to be the Azbakeyya investigation inspector broke into HMLC ordering everybody there to sit on the floor. He was followed by a military police lieutenant accompanied by two military police officers where the former stood on a chair and shouted: I have orders to shoot anybody who moves. A huge group of thugs then entered the center accompanied by an intelligence officer. They searched the place, destroyed files and stole some of them, destroyed desks and took papers and CDs, searched personal bags of staff all the while throwing obscenities and accusations of destroying Egypt and conspiring with foreigners. 

Twenty activists were violently arrested today from the Alexandria appeals court. According to our lawyer, they are currently held in Mansheya police station however the police denies.

They were taken violently and beaten, one sustained injury to his leg and was taken to hospital. The activists were peacefully protesting outside the court during the appeal of the trial of the activist Hassan Mostafa.

Hassan Mostafa received a 6 months jail sentence for fabricated charges of attacking a police officer. Hassan was one of the first activists who responded to the Khaled Said case and protested in front of the Sidi Gaber police station on the night of 11 June 2010 which was met with violence and arrests.

The trial was adjourned for the session of 18 January 2010. This is to get evidence from the Police Station register to find out whether Shady Maged was taken out of his cell between 14 and 24 October 2007 to be presented to 6 October City’s General hospital and for the defense lawyers to present witnesses who were detained at the same time as Shady. Shady’s lawyers in the civil case asked for the addition to the charges, the charge of detention without cause for detaining Shady, his wife and baby from the 10 to 15 March 2008.

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.

"Human rights in the context of the war on Terror"

Saturday 2nd of May 2009

9 am - 2 pm

at Hisham Mubarak Law Center

El Nadim Center for the Rehabilitation of victims of Violence in collaboration with the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the International Council for the Rehabilitation of victims of Torture (IRCT) are honored to invite you to a seminar addressing "Human rights in the context of the war on Terror".

The seminar will be held on the 2^nd of May 2009, at theHisham Mubarak Law Center (HMLC), from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Address: 1 Suq el Tawfikeyya street, 5^th floor