Opposition: Protester dies after torture
February 5, 2013, Tuesday
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AN Egyptian opposition party has claimed that police tortured one of its members to death, electrocuting him and beating him repeatedly on the head, the latest case alleging police brutality in a crackdown on anti-government protesters.
Mohammed el-Gindy, a 28-year-old protester, died of his wounds early yesterday at a Cairo hospital after he was "tortured to death," the Egyptian Popular Current party said in a statement.
El-Gindy went missing for several days after protesting on January 27 in Cairo's Tahrir Square. The protesters were opposed to Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi's policies and were pressing him to amend the constitution, which was drafted by a panel dominated by Islamists and approved in a public referendum last year.
Party spokeswoman Mona Amer said she saw el-Gindy's body which carried marks of torture. She said he was electrocuted, had broken ribs and a "cord appeared to have been wrapped around his neck." A medical report cited brain hemorrhage as cause of death.
Party members were organizing a funeral for el-Gindy and Mohammed Saad, a 20-year-old protester, who also died of his wounds sustained during clashes with security forces last Friday.
More than 60 people have died in recent protests across Egypt that began on January 24, the eve of the second anniversary of the start of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
The deaths of the two protesters come days after a video surfaced showing riot police beating and dragging a naked man during Friday clashes near the presidential palace. The man, Hamada Saber, initially denied police abuse and said protesters undressed him. But later he changed his account of what happened, saying he lied to avoid more problems.
The video was broadcast live on Egyptian television late Friday as protests raged in the streets outside the presidential palace. The beating prompted a rare statement of regret from the Interior Ministry, which promised to investigate the attack.
Mohammed el-Gindy, a 28-year-old protester, died of his wounds early yesterday at a Cairo hospital after he was "tortured to death," the Egyptian Popular Current party said in a statement.
El-Gindy went missing for several days after protesting on January 27 in Cairo's Tahrir Square. The protesters were opposed to Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi's policies and were pressing him to amend the constitution, which was drafted by a panel dominated by Islamists and approved in a public referendum last year.
Party spokeswoman Mona Amer said she saw el-Gindy's body which carried marks of torture. She said he was electrocuted, had broken ribs and a "cord appeared to have been wrapped around his neck." A medical report cited brain hemorrhage as cause of death.
Party members were organizing a funeral for el-Gindy and Mohammed Saad, a 20-year-old protester, who also died of his wounds sustained during clashes with security forces last Friday.
More than 60 people have died in recent protests across Egypt that began on January 24, the eve of the second anniversary of the start of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
The deaths of the two protesters come days after a video surfaced showing riot police beating and dragging a naked man during Friday clashes near the presidential palace. The man, Hamada Saber, initially denied police abuse and said protesters undressed him. But later he changed his account of what happened, saying he lied to avoid more problems.
The video was broadcast live on Egyptian television late Friday as protests raged in the streets outside the presidential palace. The beating prompted a rare statement of regret from the Interior Ministry, which promised to investigate the attack.
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