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1/6/2002
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Statement Four
Parliamentary Elections 2005: Third Phase Run-Off
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7/12/2005
Violence and rocky entanglements between security forces and voters continue to dominate the electoral scene during Third Phase. Security forces have applied every handy means (such as rubber bullet and tear gas bombs) to hold voters from voting.
Three Damaiettan voters were killed as a consequence: al-Said al-Dageidy, Shaaban Abou Rabaa, and Atef Mohamed Ahmed. Many were also injured. The Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights (EOHR) does stress the perilous escalating violence against voters and calls upon authorities as well as the Parliamentary Elections High Committee (PEHC) to immediately investigate killings, announce investigation outcomes to the public, and to punish perpetrators. EOHR has also recorded erroneous electoral registers. Violations include:
1. Security forces Harassments
According to an EOHR observer, security forces and voters engaged in confrontations; the former trying to hold voters off polling stations. For example, in al-Khayatah Village, Damietta Downtown Constituency, the forces fired at voters and released tear gas bombs.
As a consequence, three were killed: al-Said al-Dageidy, Shaaban Abou Rabaa, and Atef Mohamed Ahmed and many were differentially injured. Similarly, at stations of Birmbal Village, Minyat al-Nasr Constituency, Daqahliyah forces denied voters access and released rubber bullet whereupon six got injured: Ahmed Ahmed Mahmoud al-Bassiouny, Khaled Ali al-Waseef, Ahmed Abou Bakr Taher, Abdullah Ahmed Mohamed, al-Sayed Hafez Mohamed al-Adawy, and Osama al-Bastawisy who got a rubber bullet in the head and was carried away to al-Mansourah Hospital in a critical state. Moreover, at stations of Clinic Unit, Abou Hamad Constituency, al-Sharqiyah SF released tear gas bombs and rubber bullets at voters whereupon they retaliated using Molotov cocktail. A Mahmoud Mohamed Tawfiq Ibrahim, child, 10, was injured and carried away to Abou Hamad Central Hospital.
The same thing happened at Technical Commercial Institute School, First Constituency, First Police Station, Zagazig, and Girls Secondary School and Badawy Village, al-Gamaliyah-al-Matariyah Constituency, al-Daqahliyah where, again, many were injured and arrested. The same story applies for al-Broulus-al-Hamoul Constituency, Kafr al-Sheik.
Stations of Awish al-Hagar Village, First Constituency, al-Daqahliyah saw a Mohamed Abdel Maqsoud Diraz injured getting two rubber bullets, shoulder and balls. "People swarmed into station since SF held them off. Meanwhile, SF shot me twice and I was carried away to the hospital," Diraz told an EOHR interviewer.
EOHR has also recorded security forces' assault on an Ahmed Refaie Mohamed at al-Zahraa School, First Constituency, and al-Areesh. Mohamed got bruises everywhere and he is now detained at Fourth Police Station.
2. Violence and Bullying Acts Continue
According to an EOHR observer at al-Rous School, Fourth Constituency, Kafr al-Sheikh National Democratic Party (NDP) supporters held voters off the station using rubber bullet and tear gas bombs. Many were injured: Saad Mandour Abdou and Shalaby Khairalah, to mention but a few.
The same scenario took place at the stations of al-Quieyah Village where an Ahmed Mohamed Taha was injured. Along similar lines, NDP supporters at al-Naseriyah School, Zagazig Constituency, al-Sharqiyah hurled stones and Molotov cocktails at voters with SF only watching.
3. Erroneous Electoral Registers
According to EOHR observer at Awlad Khalaf Preparatory School, Farasqour Constituency, Dameitta mistakes in registers were abundant. First, dead people's names existed such as Amal Abdel Hamid al-Dousy (Station 41, Electoral Register Number 239), Kariman Heghazi Hehgazi (42, 39), Roushdy Hilal Mustafa (39, 29), Rabiea al-Imam Ahmed (39, 52), Refaat Tawfiq al-Sherief (39, 73), Zidan Liby Basha (398, 1), Abdel Halim Sayed Rebaa (39, 116), and Jihan Shaouky al-Itah (41, 14) who died twenty years ago. Then there were also mistakes in names themselves such as Mimi Gad al-Said (42, 25), instead of Mima Gad al-Said, Nadya Abdou Badawy (42, 3), instead of Nagiyah Abdou Badawy, Nagat Abdel Aleem al-Missry (42, 72), instead of Nagat Abdel Aleem al-Massry, and Mohamed Kamal Mahmoud (40, 253), instead of Mohamed Kamel Mahmoud al-Dous.
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