The case of the Eguptian bus driver Imad al-Kabir has finally made it to the news exposing a pattern much larger than the case of one man however important. The bus driver, who intervened in an argument between the police and another civilian in a Cairo parking lot, was sentenced to prison for resisting a police officer. The fact that he was humiliated and physically assaulted by the police was not even mentioned. Police themselves shot a video of the brutality and in order to further humiliate the suspect circulated it to other parties.
Apparently police brutality in Egypt is so common as to amount to a known phenomenon, however, not discussed. The case of al-Kabir only became known because a blogger posted the video of his humiliation into his blog.
Now finally Human Rights Watch has picked up the case. Hopefully public pressure will have some effect in this and many other Egyptian prisoners' cases.
posted by Emilia.kk @ 9:53 AM
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