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EOHR Condemns the Torture of Political Activists and Calls for an Immediate Investigation
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28/5/2006
EOHR strongly condemns the torture of the two political activists and members of Kefayia Movement, Muhamed el Sharkawy and Karim el Shaeer, whom were subjected to barbaric torture by the police forces after kidnapping them from a place near the Journalists Syndicate on Thursday 26th May 2006
A group of political activists and journalists organized a demonstration in front of the Journalists Syndicate on the first anniversary of the "Black Wednesday" which witnessed sever assaults on a group of journalists in 2005.
Shortly after the demonstration ended, both Sharkawy and El Shaeer were kidnapped, while they where driving a car near the Syndicate ,by some officers, as they snatched Sharkawy out of the car and took him to a building in Abdel Khalek Tharwat Street, and they started beating him with hands and legs tell he hit the ground. They were about twenty persons, and they had beaten him in a barbaric way for more than 20 minutes.
After that, Sharkawy was dragged on the floor and stairs, and he was taken in a microbus. While inside the microbus, he was beaten by one officer on the face, then he was ordered to put his head between his legs then they hit him on the back. Then he was taken to Kasr el Nil Police Station blindfolded, where he was forced to strip off his clothes, tortured and raped.
As for el Shaeer, he was also kidnapped from a car and was beaten before taking him to Kasr el Nil Police Station where the torture was resumed till he was transferred to the State Security Prosecution, charged according to case 517 Supreme State Security (Emergency), which decided to detain him for 15 days.
Accordingly, EOHR demands from the Prosecutor General to carry out an immediate investigation in the incidents of kidnapping and torturing of Sharkawy and el Shaeer, and to refer them to the forensic office to record their injuries, and to announce the results of this investigation publicly and to present the perpetrators to justice.
EOHR also demands the release of the two detainees and all the other detainees in support of the judges who were just practicing their constitutional rights to express their opinions.
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