[wvns] Egyptian Torture Video Festival
Egypt: Egyptian Bloggers Plan Festival of Torture Videos
International Freedom of Expression Exchange Clearing House (Toronto)
27 November 2007
Egyptian bloggers, often at the forefront of exposing human rights
abuses, are planning an online festival of torture videos to run
alongside the 31st Cairo Film Festival, from 27 November to 7 December.
According to the "Middle East Times", the parallel festival is the
invention of a blogger named Walid, and will feature "controversial
acts of torture allegedly committed by the security authorities."
Prizes, including a "Golden Whip", will be awarded to the best entrants.
Egypt's bloggers have exposed many incidents of police torture. In a
rare case of security forces being sentenced for abusing detainees,
two policemen got three years in jail for torturing a man in their
custody earlier this month. Footage of the abuse filmed with a mobile
phone was widely distributed on YouTube and sparked nationwide and
international outrage.
But bloggers who are critical of the government can also find
themselves as victims. Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer, who is serving a
four-year jail term for insulting Islam and President Hosni Mubarak,
has recently been tortured while in custody, reports the Arabic
Network for Human Rights Information (HRInfo). Amer, the first blogger
to stand trial in Egypt for his Internet postings, has three more
years left in his sentence.
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