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Communiqué to the Attorney-General "my body has become a tableau of officers' kicks" How long will torture, ill-treatment and application of emergency law be practiced against innocent citizens? Burj Al Arab prisoners demand release
On 6/4/2009, the Land Center for Human Rights presented communiqué No. 6554 to the Attorney-General on behalf of Mrs. Iman Ali Abdu, wife of Mr. Ikrami Saad Hajjaj who was arrested by officers from the Investigation of public funds after Major Sharif and Colonel Samir from Kafr El-Sheikh Deportation Department tortured him.
The complainant reported that her husband was arrested on 26/2/2008 by the Investigation Center of Matobas and been introduced to the Prosecution after being accused of sending young people abroad illegally, and even though he had nothing to do with the subject of sending young people overseas, the police has accused her husband many times to force him to work with them as an informer.
Although the prosecution released him, the Investigation Center of Matobas arrested and imprisoned him in Burj Al Arab, and her husband remained in custody since the date of his arrest until today. The LCHR had made several appeals for his release and he has been released, but the officers of the police station in Kafr Sheikh - Matobas did not execute the release decision, and when the wife threatened on 11/3/2009 to file complaints against the officers, they tortured her husband and beaten him brutally, as they restrained and beat him severely in the face and violently threw him to the ground and started kicking him, then they stripped him of his clothes and continued in the brutal torture for two days, despite his begging to send him to a hospital because of the severity of the beating on his face, which led to continuous bleeding, and ruining a previous operation that was conducted in St. Mark Hospital in Alexandria in February 2008.
The complainant's husband was seriously injured, according to the complaint that her husband, upon his arrival at Matobas police station, officers were asked to file a report of the incident, present him to the Prosecutors' and to be examined by the Forensic doctor and to be sent to one of the hospitals for treatment from the effects of torture. But the officers issues a new decision to detain him on 16/3/2009 and he was deported from Matobas police station at night to reach Burj Al Arab prison in the morning of 17/3/2008, and he has not been treated so far.
The Center denounces the policies of the Ministry of the Interior, which threaten the right to personal security, freedom of citizens and their integrity, which is guaranteed by the Egyptian law and the Constitution, which requires the punishment of those officers committed to the application of the law and to ensure the rights of citizens to personal security by preventing physical and psychological torture.
The Center presented a communiqué to the Attorney-General to investigate the facts and listen to the testimony of the detainee and witnesses of the torture and interrogation of the two officers of Matobas police station for violating the law, misusing their power and infringement on the freedoms and rights of citizens, personal safety, physical and psychological integrity, file a criminal lawsuit against them and the release the victim who is still a prisoner in Burj Al Arab without collateral because he does not represent danger of any kind to the public security of the country.
The Center calls upon the members of the People's Assembly and Shura Council members for the need to provide interviews to the Minister of Interior to stop the arrest and torture of citizens in police stations and to stop fabricating police reports and charges against them claiming to stop illegal immigration, to ensure the rights of citizens to personal security and freedom.
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