CAIRO: Human rights activist Aida Seif al-Dowla said on Tuesday that Egypt’s ministry of the interior bears full responsibility for the death in unclear circumstances of Essam Atta at Qasr el-Aini hospital last Thursday. Speaking at a press conference held by the Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture, Seif al-Dowla called for [...]
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CAIRO: “If you were able to get Khaled Said’s right back before, we would have been you’ll get our son’s right as well,” mourned Essam Atta’s family while waiting for his body outside of the morgue. A statement that was able to put down every revolutionary’s head to shame after Essam was said to be [...]
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CAIRO: The verdict on Wednesday in slain activist Khaled Said’s case where his two policemen killers were handed 7 years each, started a week of anger in Egypt instead of what could have been sighs of relief. The following evening, reports began circulating that 24-year-old Essam Atta was tortured to death in his prison cell [...]
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CAIRO: A 19-year-old boy died after a police officer shot him following a verbal argument and wounded another young man in Qasr al-Aini street early evening on Friday, an eyewitness told Bikyamasr.com. The family of the young man set the police officer’s car on fire starting a riot and the wounded man was taken to [...]
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“We are all Khaled Said” turned to “We are all Mina Daniel” and then on Thursday evening Egyptians began the “We are all Essam” campaign after rights activists and NGOs reported 24-year-old Essam Atta was brutally tortured to death by prison guards at Torah prison in Cairo after they discovered a mobile phone SIM card in [...]
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CAIRO: Hours after a 24-year-old man was reportedly tortured and killed at an Egyptian prison, the country’s activists had begun to take their anger online. The new anti-police torture campaign brings back memories of June 2010, when Khaled Said‘s death began a movement against the regime that culminated in the 18-day uprising that ousted [...]
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