Tortured, beaten, degraded etc, they are alternative words that you can easily hear from a person it happened to go to the police station not as a detainee but as a complainant.
You might be held in custody only to be left as a breathless body such as Ahmed Badei Khafaga (May 2007), Saad Rezkallah Khalil (Many 2007) and Tarek Fatouh Emam (Many 2005). The police claimed that the three hanged themselves despite the fact that the latter had served his term and contacted his family to inform them of his release within 48 hours but he left a dead body.
Police for the service of the people, this is the slogan of the Egyptian police, but it seems that this slogan has changed to be the police for the service of people"s torture.
Even children, Mohamed Mohamed Mamdouh, 12, was killed in a police station in Mansoura. Other children preceeded him including Saddam Hussein from Waraq and Abdallah Rezk Abdulatif in 6th of October police station.
If you are tortured you can lodge a complaint against the police but we regret that we would not guarantee that you would leave unharmed or at the best we would not guarantee that you would not be indicted by the prosecution and turn to be the suspect. This is exactly what had happened to Mohamed Abdel Aziz Abdel Fatah, Abdel Razik Abdel Aziz Abdel Fatah and Ahmed Ali Abdou. Alexndria misdemeanour court of Bab Shark passed a ruling on April 16th 2007 in the case no. 47678 in 2006 acquitting police assistants Al-Arabi Saleh Mohamed and Gomaa Abdel Monsef Ibrahim who serve at Bab Shark police station of the charges of using violence.
The court convicted Mohamed Abdel Aziz Abdel Fatah, Abdel Razak Abdel Aziz and Ahmed Ali Abdou, with charges related to the same case of resisting authorities. The court ordered them to serve three months in jail, LE 200 in bail as well as a temporary compensation of LE 501.
Police officers led them to the police station and tortured them and thus they turned to be the perpetrators. It would be a bad omen, if a crime takes place in you village or city because police officers could very possibly arrest the inhabitants of the entire village to get one of them to confess. This exactly what had happened on April 21st, 2007 at Armant village where citizen Walid Ibrahim was found killed in a sugarcane field. To uncover the perpetrator, policemen in Armant resorted to the only means they know about criminal investigations.
They arrested the largest number of citizens possible and tortured them so as to get one of them to confess the crime.
About 45 citizens were detained and tortured including women and children. They were held, beaten, electrically shocked and harassed, the result was that Sayed Hassan Mohamed, a citizen, was killed under torture at the police station in Armant at the presence of his wife and son aged 14.
The police considered the killing of Sayed Hassan a compensation for the family of Walid Ibrahim for his killing