In yesterday session October 24, 2004 in the first session of the trial of police officer Yasser Sobhy Mahmoud Ahmed, an officer in Kafr Shukr police station in Banha, accused in case No. 189/2004 north of Banha criminal court for torturing the female citizen Mabroka Ibrahim Mesailhy aged 57, the court decided to withdraw from the case and referred it to the head of the court to specify another court circuit to consider that case, as the suspect defender informed the court of kidnapping the brother of the victim before the session directly at the hand of the officers of Kafr Shukr alleging that the plaintiffs were sentenced to a week.



The incident dates back to September 17, 2003 when the victim was surprised of the investigation officers in Kafr Shukr police station led by the officer Yasser Sobhy Mahmoud Ahmed and Ayman Mohamed Nabawy and some detectives broke through her house to arrest her son Sayed Ahmed wanted for a sentence in case No. 2745/2003 in a forcible theft crime and then Yasser Sobhy beat her with a whip because she refused to inform him of his place and then he and the officer Ayman Mohamed Nabawy kicked her and took off her clothes in front of the people of the village in spite of her old age and her entreaties however he ordered one of his detective to assault on her and the detective put his hand on private places on her body in addition verbal abuses and insults to degrade her. The victim was referred to the department of the legal medicine and the case No. 5395/2003 Kafr Shukr criminals and by comparing it bruises and injuries in head and eyes and the left cheek, neck, left arm were found and there is anything prevent the possibility of all injuries occurrence like what is mentioned in the prosecution memorandum in a date contradict to the date of the incident and the prosecution decided in its memo to register papers of a crime and misdemeanor in article 129 and 242 para 1 and 3 and article 268 para 1 of Penal Code against Yasser Sobhy Mahmoud Mohamed and registered in 189/2004 north of Banha criminal court.



Human Rights Association for the Assistance of Prisoners