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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 01:14 PM
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Egyptian on torture tape at risk
Published: Sunday, 14 January, 2007, 11:12 AM Doha Time

.. Cairo minibus driver Imad al-Kabir trigggered an uproar after a video circulated on Egyptian blogs in November showed him lying on the floor as an unidentified man sodomised him with a stick while others watched.

Egypt later detained two police officers over the incident on the tape which shows Kabir screaming as he is abused.

US-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement Kabir, who was sent to prison this week on charges linked to the same incident, now faced a "new risk of torture" ...

"Sending a torture victim back to the same place where he said he was tortured on charges brought by his alleged torturers raises enormous concerns about his safety," <Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch> said ...

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=127268&version=1&template_id=37&parent_id=17
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