In Telbana village, Hassan Khaled Hamad, a member of the Shura council, and Mrs. Hayam Amer, a member of the People"s Assembly of Belqas constituency pressed the family of torture victim to withdraw their complaint against police officers. This is simply the situation in police stations and the secret part is worse manifested in secret prisons, torture to death and hiding bodies, as well as throwing detainees from the windows of police stations. They might do that themselves for fear of a dark fate. This took place in realty when citizen Naser Gerges through himself off the window of the police station on the fourth floor. There are a large number of such cases that led to death but they were put out of sight. 
 

Tortured, beaten, degraded etc, they are alternative words that you can easily hear from a person it happened to go to the police station not as a detainee but as a complainant.
 
You might be held in custody only to be left as a breathless body such as Ahmed Badei Khafaga (May 2007), Saad Rezkallah Khalil (Many 2007) and Tarek Fatouh Emam (Many 2005). The police claimed that the three hanged themselves despite the fact that the latter had served his term and contacted his family to inform them of his release within 48 hours but he left a dead body.
 
Police for the service of the people, this is the slogan of the Egyptian police, but it seems that this slogan has changed to be the police for the service of people"s torture.
 
Even children, Mohamed Mohamed Mamdouh, 12, was killed in a police station in Mansoura. Other children preceeded him including Saddam Hussein from Waraq and Abdallah Rezk Abdulatif in 6th of October police station.  read more »

When you are a police officer, it means power – fortune – influence and may be torture. This is not Egypt "s royal regime but in the Arab Republic of Egypt which they claim to be democratic. When you are a policeman you are above all problems and even you face one with anyone, your colleagues will make you a favour and torture or even kill him\her for you. So don’t worry…just join the police academy and you will enjoy all the powers, influence and money before you graduate. You could collect money by force from the weak who lost hope for a decent life. Just put your step into the academy. This is the way it works in Egypt . And that is why thousands of secondary school graduates struggle to join all sorts of police academies, because they and their fathers know very well that the only way to protect their families is to have influence, money or power or all the three by joining the police.  read more »

Acquired weakness and despair: This condition takes place when things turn to be out of man’s control over events and incidents related to him\her. A psychological theory explains the reasons behind chronicle depression that happens when the theory of reward and punishment is unclear. During torture, the victim learns that it will go on even after admitting required information. Pain simply does not stop… That is why there is no sense of any response so long as it will not make any difference in one’s reality…

 
Destroying Logical Experience “meaning”:  In regular circumstances, the brain organizes life experiences and situations, divides and classifies them logically and connects them with the past in a way that the brain can comprehend in certain context. It is a matchless unpredictable moment that brings time to a stand still with no sense of continuity. Then the meaning of existence ceases. The victim becomes deeply isolated beyond place, time and events…  read more »

Torture is one of the oldest forms of violence performed by some persons against others. Racist and discriminative inclinations were among the prominent motives behind violence. They emerge from contempt of the other, persecution of the weak and a feeling of superiority. Torture is a way to claim strength, power and the ability to harm others whenever and however it is occurred to them. It is an effective method to force the weak to do what the torturer wants, to confess or even a way to please a third party backed by the police or assumes high position or at least a statesman as was the case in most of the instances….

 
Torture is one of the most horrible methods known to humanity. Despite being widespread in some societies – such as Egypt – it is rare to find anyone talking about it, whether being the tortured or psychologists. Torture is a hard experience for anyone to talk about as being beyond human knowledge. It is too violent, shocking and painful for the victim to understand. No previous or subsequent experience is similar unless it is repeated…  read more »

The United Nations passed an agreement against torture and other inhumane or degrading treatment. The agreement was approved on December 10th, 1984 and came into effect on June 26th 1987 as per provisions of article 27.

Egypt was one of the countries that signed this document. But it seems that Egypt does not respect any international charters and agreements signed let alone internal laws and conventions.

 
The first article of this agreement defines torture as any action resulting in sever physical or mental pain or torture, inflected in purpose on a person with the aim of extracting information, confession or as a punishment for an act committed or suspected of being perpetrated by that person. It also goes for acts of intimidation or attempts to compel a person into doing something for one reason or another whether the torturer is doing that in his official or non-official capacity. The resulting pain or torture might not be only direct but as a circumstantial effect as well.  read more »

When I first thought of writing this file, I noticed the growing number of torture cases that are getting more and more intention. Is it poverty that turns man into a monster who does not bat an eyelid when torturing a fellow human being? Is it favoritism, bribery or mere arrogance of power? I used to think that torture began to spread only this year and felt bewildered. I wondered if can find enough torture cases to compile a good file to satisfy the readers. But when I opened the file I found that the number of the tortured exceeded all of my expectations. I did not know that they are thousands and that the number of police officers who perform such a crime are far more than those honourable ones who respect this great patient people. I was worried to be accused of distorting the image of Egyptian police officers. But now it dose not matter any more; whether I speak out or not, it is too obvious to be exposed.

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 The Associated Press

Two police officers are under investigation after two teenagers alleged that the officers ordered other prisoners to rape them at a police station, prosecution officials said Wednesday.

A lieutenant and first lieutenant at the Kafr el-Sheik station allegedly ordered older prisoners to rape the teenage boys, ages 16 and 17, after the two were arrested for drug possession last week and ordered detained for four days, the officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media about the case.

After their release, the teenagers' families filed a complaint with the local prosecutor's office, and a forensic examination taken after they left police custody showed they were recently sexually abused, the officials said.  read more »