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Rights center accuses chief of investigations in Beni Soueif of torturing child for four days and giving him electroshocks for six hours straight
The Land Center for Human Rights filed a complaint with the Public Prosecutor the day before yesterday accusing the chief of investigations in the district of Beba, in the province of Beni Soueif, of torturing a child, Antar Mohammed Abu Zeid, for four days and giving him electroshocks.
Antar said in the complaint that Mohammed Mustafa al-Dabsh, the chief of investigations, a detective named Mansour, and two policemen beat him, stripped him, and deprived him of food for two days before dousing his body in water and giving him six straight hours of electroshocks.
Mohammed Abu Zeid, the child’s father, said that his son was detained for four days, starting on November 9, 2007, after Abu Zeid, the father, got into a fight with other people due to a conflict over a guard job at the Delta Company. During the fight he was shot in the foot. He accused the chief of investigations of arresting his wife, his niece, and his son to force them to testify that another person, Omar Ahmed Mahmoud, is the one who shot him.
He added that his son could not bear the torture and electrocution, and so he changed his statement and accused Omar Ahmed Mahmoud, after receiving LE15,000 from the real perpetrator. Mahmoud was sentenced to four years in prison.
The center asked that the chief of investigations be punished with prison time and dismissed from his job for torturing a citizen to obtain a confession, as stipulated in Article 126 of the Penal Code.
Source: Al-Badil
July 14, 2008
By: Amira Ahmed
Written By: AD2
Date Posted: 7/21/2008
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