Comments on: Egypt: Bloggers open the door to police brutality debate http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:43:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: À Casa j’ai pas vu Bush, mais j’ai parlé de Ben Ali « [fikra] فكرة http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/comment-page-2/#comment-1463163 À Casa j’ai pas vu Bush, mais j’ai parlé de Ben Ali « [fikra] فكرة Thu, 29 May 2008 16:38:15 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/#comment-1463163 [...] torture et le harcèlement sexuel en parlant du travail des blogueurs egyptiens à l'instar de Wael Abbas [...] [...] torture et le harcèlement sexuel en parlant du travail des blogueurs egyptiens à l’instar de Wael Abbas [...]

]]> By: LE FLAMBEAU http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/comment-page-2/#comment-1272309 LE FLAMBEAU Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:17:19 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/#comment-1272309 [...] liens sur cette affaire (1 et 2) que nous avons déjà évoquée parce qu’elle révèle également la place que prend, dans [...] [...] liens sur cette affaire (1 et 2) que nous avons déjà évoquée parce qu’elle révèle également la place que prend, dans [...]

]]> By: Sameer Padania http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/comment-page-2/#comment-1203688 Sameer Padania Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:08:12 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/#comment-1203688 And now this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7082446.stm "A man has died from his injuries after being tortured by Egyptian police for three days, officials have said. The officials - who refused to give their names - told foreign news agencies that Ahmed Saber Saad had been held on suspicion of drug possession. But state prosecutors ordered his release, saying there was insufficient evidence against him. The officials say that, instead, police tortured Saad for three days, before dumping him on the street in Giza. He died a day later. The Egyptian Prosecutor General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud has ordered an inquiry into the reports." And now this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7082446.stm

“A man has died from his injuries after being tortured by Egyptian police for three days, officials have said. The officials – who refused to give their names – told foreign news agencies that Ahmed Saber Saad had been held on suspicion of drug possession. But state prosecutors ordered his release, saying there was insufficient evidence against him. The officials say that, instead, police tortured Saad for three days, before dumping him on the street in Giza. He died a day later. The Egyptian Prosecutor General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud has ordered an inquiry into the reports.”

]]> By: Sameer Padania http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/comment-page-2/#comment-1203092 Sameer Padania Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:26:31 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/#comment-1203092 Excellent news today from Egypt: "Two Egyptian policemen have been jailed for three years each for torturing a bus driver during police custody." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7078785.stm Excellent news today from Egypt:

“Two Egyptian policemen have been jailed for three years each for torturing a bus driver during police custody.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7078785.stm

]]> By: Egypt: Bloggers open the door to police brutality debate [via GV/WITNESS] « The Hub - the global platform for human rights media and activism http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/comment-page-2/#comment-1202040 Egypt: Bloggers open the door to police brutality debate [via GV/WITNESS] « The Hub - the global platform for human rights media and activism Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:15:11 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/#comment-1202040 [...] 9, 2006 in Human Rights [Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices [...] [...] 9, 2006 in Human Rights [Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices [...]

]]> By: Le Flambeau » Ombres et lumières : “Le livre des jours” de Taha Hussein http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/comment-page-2/#comment-1186409 Le Flambeau » Ombres et lumières : “Le livre des jours” de Taha Hussein Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:54:13 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/#comment-1186409 [...] liens sur cette affaire (1 et 2) que nous avons déjà évoquée parce qu’elle révèle également la place que prend, dans [...] [...] liens sur cette affaire (1 et 2) que nous avons déjà évoquée parce qu’elle révèle également la place que prend, dans [...]

]]> By: bobby http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/comment-page-2/#comment-1039743 bobby Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:32:35 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/#comment-1039743 Take a look and read at this. Chicago Police Officer responds to a disturbacne by himself and shoots and kills and unarmed citizen with absolutely no cause. The Chicago Police Department then attempts to conceal the murder. The video and the accompanying article explain it all in depth. What are your comments in the UK? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNQnqwxy9Vc http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/killedoncamera/ Chicago Police Officer beats female Polish bartender severly after she refuses more free alcohol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz6YJtnLtus Take a look and read at this. Chicago Police Officer responds to a disturbacne by himself and shoots and kills and unarmed citizen with absolutely no cause. The Chicago Police Department then attempts to conceal the murder. The video and the accompanying article explain it all in depth. What are your comments in the UK?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNQnqwxy9Vc

http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/killedoncamera/

Chicago Police Officer beats female Polish bartender severly after she refuses more free alcohol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz6YJtnLtus

]]> By: Politis http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-771305 Politis Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:22:16 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/#comment-771305 <strong>Egitto, blogger condannato: le reazioni...</strong> Egitto, blogger condannato: le reazioni Le associazioni umanitarie si muovono. RSF consiglia all'ONU di rifiutare l'ospitalità che il paese ha offerto per l'Internet Governance Forum del 2009 Roma - L'Egitto rischia un danno clamoroso alla pr... Egitto, blogger condannato: le reazioni…

Egitto, blogger condannato: le reazioni Le associazioni umanitarie si muovono. RSF consiglia all’ONU di rifiutare l’ospitalità che il paese ha offerto per l’Internet Governance Forum del 2009 Roma – L’Egitto rischia un danno clamoroso alla pr…

]]> By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Egyptian blogger gets four years in prison for contempt of religion http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-754890 Hot Air » Blog Archive » Egyptian blogger gets four years in prison for contempt of religion Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:23:19 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/#comment-754890 [...] He was arrested in November, tried this month, and today the verdict came down: guilty of contempt of religion, insulting the president and spreading false information. It’s that last charge that’s most interesting, though. I’ve written before about Egyptian bloggers and how, although there’s only a very few of them writing about politics, they’ve exerted extraordinary influence in the country by exposing gruesome torture by the state police and mass sexual harassment of women on the streets of Cairo after Eid. (Their latest expose came just a few weeks ago.) Not only that, but according to the Beeb, “Bloggers also play an important role in Egypt’s small pro-democracy movement. They advertise in advance the times and venues of political protests, and then post pictures and accounts of how the police dealt with the demonstrations.” I’ve written about that, too. [...] [...] He was arrested in November, tried this month, and today the verdict came down: guilty of contempt of religion, insulting the president and spreading false information. It’s that last charge that’s most interesting, though. I’ve written before about Egyptian bloggers and how, although there’s only a very few of them writing about politics, they’ve exerted extraordinary influence in the country by exposing gruesome torture by the state police and mass sexual harassment of women on the streets of Cairo after Eid. (Their latest expose came just a few weeks ago.) Not only that, but according to the Beeb, “Bloggers also play an important role in Egypt’s small pro-democracy movement. They advertise in advance the times and venues of political protests, and then post pictures and accounts of how the police dealt with the demonstrations.” I’ve written about that, too. [...]

]]> By: Sameer Padania http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-693044 Sameer Padania Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:01:26 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/#comment-693044 There has been a welter of media and civil society attention given to this story over the past two months, including today's People & Power on Al-Jazeera International [http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/05180B28-9CAA-46FF-B1DD-981B70E3E9E9.htm]: - Voices of the People in Egypt - "This episode of People & Power explores the struggles that independent journalists in Egypt face when they attempt to hold the Egyptian regime and state-run institutions to account. An emergency law which has been in force since 1981 has enabled the government to enforce a rigid control over free expression. The law gives the government powers to detain people without charge and restrict civil liberties." "Independent journalists who have dared to criticise the regime have allegedly faced intimidation, torture and arrest. Ibrahim Issa, who runs El Dostor, a newspaper that is critical of the government, says that the domination of state-run media means that 95 per cent of Egyptian journalists misinform people on a daily basis. Last year, Issa was sentenced to one year in prison for charges of insulting Hosni Mubarak, the president." "The programme also features Momtaz el Qat, who runs the state-run newspaper, Akhbar el Yom. El Qat denies that independent journalists face any such repurcussions for criticising the government. He also argues that the concept of "freedom" guides independent journalists to act against the interests of Egyptian society." "The film also looks at the ways the new technologies such as the internet have created a new space for independent journalists to operate in. However, the case of an internet blogger who was jailed for 45 days following his anti-government writings demonstrates that the online world is not immune from government oppression either." There has been a welter of media and civil society attention given to this story over the past two months, including today’s People & Power on Al-Jazeera International [http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/05180B28-9CAA-46FF-B1DD-981B70E3E9E9.htm]:

- Voices of the People in Egypt -

“This episode of People & Power explores the struggles that independent journalists in Egypt face when they attempt to hold the Egyptian regime and state-run institutions to account. An emergency law which has been in force since 1981 has enabled the government to enforce a rigid control over free expression. The law gives the government powers to detain people without charge and restrict civil liberties.”

“Independent journalists who have dared to criticise the regime have allegedly faced intimidation, torture and arrest. Ibrahim Issa, who runs El Dostor, a newspaper that is critical of the government, says that the domination of state-run media means that 95 per cent of Egyptian journalists misinform people on a daily basis. Last year, Issa was sentenced to one year in prison for charges of insulting Hosni Mubarak, the president.”

“The programme also features Momtaz el Qat, who runs the state-run newspaper, Akhbar el Yom. El Qat denies that independent journalists face any such repurcussions for criticising the government. He also argues that the concept of “freedom” guides independent journalists to act against the interests of Egyptian society.”

“The film also looks at the ways the new technologies such as the internet have created a new space for independent journalists to operate in. However, the case of an internet blogger who was jailed for 45 days following his anti-government writings demonstrates that the online world is not immune from government oppression either.”

]]> By: El-Adly Video-Gate: Updates from Nasser Amin at 3arabawy http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-591630 El-Adly Video-Gate: Updates from Nasser Amin at 3arabawy Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:39:01 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/#comment-591630 [...] Finally, Nasser expressed great admiration for the role of bloggers–like Wael Abbas and Demagh MAK–and Al-Fagr newspaper in exposing police brutality. But he also warned of increased police interest in the blogosphere, and expected, if not a crackdown, a state grand campaign to discredit the bloggers. [...] [...] Finally, Nasser expressed great admiration for the role of bloggers–like Wael Abbas and Demagh MAK–and Al-Fagr newspaper in exposing police brutality. But he also warned of increased police interest in the blogosphere, and expected, if not a crackdown, a state grand campaign to discredit the bloggers. [...]

]]> By: Hossam http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-553071 Hossam Mon, 01 Jan 2007 04:25:40 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/#comment-553071 The case is snowballing: http://arabist.net/arabawy/2006/12/29/el-adly-video-gate-boulaq-torturers-to-be-tried-9-january/ The case is snowballing:
http://arabist.net/arabawy/2006/12/29/el-adly-video-gate-boulaq-torturers-to-be-tried-9-january/

]]> By: Elijah Zarwan http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-481897 Elijah Zarwan Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:50:27 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/#comment-481897 Just wanted to clarify that I didn't have a problem with Sharqawi or Hossam's posting the victim's name. Just wondered about al-Fagr's decision to do so in the first place. In any case, Wael Abdel-Fateh and his associates deserve tons of credit for their investigative reporting. Just wanted to clarify that I didn’t have a problem with Sharqawi or Hossam’s posting the victim’s name. Just wondered about al-Fagr’s decision to do so in the first place. In any case, Wael Abdel-Fateh and his associates deserve tons of credit for their investigative reporting.

]]> By: alaa http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-471268 alaa Sun, 10 Dec 2006 15:56:35 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/#comment-471268 hmm the answer to both questions is if we find volunteers. yeah I'm sure the editor of torture in Egypt will welcome someone translating all the content (or at least her weekly summaries that she sends to the site's mailing list). the google maps part, the technical details are more or less simple, what we need is people to work on the data. any volunteers? hmm the answer to both questions is if we find volunteers.

yeah I’m sure the editor of torture in Egypt will welcome someone translating all the content (or at least her weekly summaries that she sends to the site’s mailing list).

the google maps part, the technical details are more or less simple, what we need is people to work on the data. any volunteers?

]]> By: Sameer Padania http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-471246 Sameer Padania Sun, 10 Dec 2006 15:42:46 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/#comment-471246 Thanks, Alaa - sorry, I buried it a bit under the text "anti-torture campaign"! And on International Human Rights Day... Is there any chance that www.tortureinegypt.net will be published in other languages soon? And I wonder whether there might be an Egyptian (or other) use for some kind of application like Sami Ben Gharbia's Tunisian Prisoners Map (see here: http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/09/27/tunisia-opening-prisons-to-the-world/) Thanks, Alaa – sorry, I buried it a bit under the text “anti-torture campaign”! And on International Human Rights Day…

Is there any chance that http://www.tortureinegypt.net will be published in other languages soon?

And I wonder whether there might be an Egyptian (or other) use for some kind of application like Sami Ben Gharbia’s Tunisian Prisoners Map (see here: http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/09/27/tunisia-opening-prisons-to-the-world/)

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