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Communiqué to the Attorney-General Who will punish the police officers who torture children in Beba police station?
Antar Mohamed Abu Zeid a 12 year-old, while accompanying his father after his treatment of a bullet wound in Beni Suef General Hospital in the wake of an altercation between his father and some members of the village of Jabal al-Nour in eastern Nile Beni Suef Governorate, sponsored by President Mohammad Illc Investigation Center Beba arrest And remanded police station and tortured, beaten and commenting to force him to confess that his father is the one who injured himself in the recognition of Antar, who forced him "that his father hand over the firearm and ammunition for the called Ahmed Mahmoud Faraj and asked him to smudge and has already grabbed a firearm and fired a shot towards him and my father No injuries "to the exclusion of real guilt of the accused who fired the father, regardless of what has been the actions and proceedings case No. 1 of 2008 crimes security of the state of emergency or ruling against the father of Antar imprisonment in jail for a year and fined him two hundred pounds and confiscation of weapons and ammunition, the exact What he did, Mr. President Investigation Center Beba Illc of Mohammed's arrest and torture of children Antar, Mohamed Abu Zeid is a violation of the rights of citizens to safety, freedom and lack of physical and psychological abuse, regardless of the fact that the court had based its judgment on statements attributed to the Antar is no longer a minor is not heeded The prosecution came as depositions and confessions were the result of torture Prime INVESTIGATION the Penal Code, procedures and child criminalizes acts of the President of Investigation Center Beba and punishment of up to isolate officers from their jobs and remanded in custody.
Today, several months after the incident torture Antar, which led to the examination of sedimentary first grade junior also led to psychological and physical effects are still a phenomenon in the body, and that he suffered panic attacks of stiffening and where his mother, stresses that often rising frightened of sleep every night because of nightmares and torture President INVESTIGATION The certificates school teacher emphasizes the collapse of his mental state and his loss of confidence in his colleagues and school because of the conditions undergone by the arrest of several Woodenness Center Beba s.
In an interview with Antar emphasized that "the investigation, Detective Chief named Mansour, 2 secretaries police who beat me on my face and my ass the informant heavy bamboo stick me on my face and my feet and head using a belt after being suspended and beaten on his back, stripped naked and prevented me food for two days until Acknowledged that my father is the one who shot himself, but I did not know already confessions signed it."
Since his head INVESTIGATION contrary to the terms of the Egyptian law and the Constitution and international covenants, Article 126 of the Penal Code stipulates that every public officer tortured a citizen in order him to admit to be punished by imprisonment and removal from office.
The Centre since offered to the Attorney General's Office communication center admonishing against the chief of police because he tortured Antar, Mohamed Abu Zeid and his detention in Beba police station unjustly and in places other than authorized the detention of children in order to achieve with him in the incident and apply the provisions of the law referred to trial.
It demands that the institutions of civil society in solidarity with the student Antar, Mohamed Abu Zeid and stop threats against his family a result of their complaint sake of the rights of citizens to safety, freedom and dignity.
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