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EOHR calls for immediate investigation into death in police station
27/9/2004
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) is seriously concerned about reports it has received about the death of Amr Atrees Hassan in Imbaba Police Station. According to his family Hassan was arrested on Thursday the 9th of September 2004, and presented the next day to the Prosecutor General who ordered that he be detained for four days during the course of investigations. On the 12th of September 2004 when he appeared before the Prosecutor General his mother was shocked by the state of his health. Hassan told his mother that he had been tortured, beaten with a stick and hung by his feet from a door. Hassan was taken back to Imbaba Police Station after the Prosecutor General renewed his detention. The family then received a telephone call informing them that their son had been taken to Imbaba Central Hospital. Upon reaching the hospital the family were informed that Hassan had died and that his body was in the hospital post mortem room. When the victim's brother examined the body he found bruising to the wrists and ankles and the right ear and bruising to and inflammation of the abdomen area.
The family presented a report to the Prosecutor General who appointed a forensic doctor to conduct an autopsy, corroborate the injuries and determine the cause of death.
EOHR restates its continuing demands for reform of penal legislation concerned with torture and enactment of the Prosecution Office's role in inspecting prisons and detention centres. It urges the Egyptian legislator to pass the draft law on torture presented to Parliament by EOHR during its last session which received the support of many members of Parliament
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