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 »