Prevented from traveling, abduction, enforced disappearance, torture, beating, electric shocks and other methods of torture and degrading violations contrary to all the provisions of the Constitution, laws and international human rights, all that and more was what the student “Abdullah al-sayed -Hassanein ” 2nd year student at the Faculty of Sharia and Law at Al Azhar University, Cairo Branch, suffered since the first hours of his arrest at Cairo International Airport on 05.25.2015 until today.
Security forces have not only prevented him from traveling alone and arrest him, but they took him to a national security branch in “Nasr City” in Cairo, where he was tortured, “Abdullah,”was endured to various methods of torture causing him burns and injuries scattered across his body, to be later transferred to another location from the headquarters of the National Security were the student went missing for 4 days without disclosing his whereabouts to any of his family or his lawyer, until he was transferred to the fifth day to the first Nasr City Police Station, to repeat the series of violations against the student from torture and beatings and electric shocks at the hands of officers and assistants detective department.
Recalling that after the student passed all those violations, finally they decided to display him before Nasr City District prosecution and interrogated him without a lawyer, where they directed many charges to the student, including ” join the group based against the law ,trying to to disturb the public order and overthrowing the regime, and imprisoned him pending charges.
Also he states that the student has been imprisoned in solitary confinement without any apparent reason for a period of 17 days within first Nasr City section, to be then deported on 06.22.2015 to “Abu Zaabal 2″ prison, and then to Tora prison, and continued his detention since today and on 10.13.2015, the public prosecutor decided to renew his detention another 45 days on charges of belonging to a terrorist group, without a proof
The student arbitrary arrest and force disappearance both are flagrant violation of the laws and international conventions to which Egypt has signed and ratified, particularly as stated in Article 55 of the Egyptian Constitution and the current, which states that: “Every person who is either arrested, detained, or his freedom is restricted shall be treated in a manner that maintains his dignity. He/she may not be tortured, intimidated, coerced, or physically or morally harmed; and may not be seized or detained except in places designated for that purpose, which shall be adequate on human and health levels. The State shall cater for the needs of people with disability. Violating any of the aforementioned is a crime punished by Law. An accused has the right to remain silent. Every statement proved to be made by a detainee under any of the foregoing actions, or threat thereof, shall be disregarded and not be relied upon”
As well as article 54 which states: ” Personal freedom is a natural right, shall be protected and may not be infringed upon. Except for the case of being caught in flagrante delicto, it is not permissible to arrest, search, detain, or restrict the freedom of anyone in any way except by virtue of a reasoned judicial order that was required in the context of an investigation, every person whose freedom is restricted shall be immediately notified of the reasons therefore; shall be informed of his/her rights in writing; shall be immediately enabled to contact his/her relatives and lawyer; and shall be brought before the investigation authority within twenty four (24) hours as of the time of restricting his/her freedom.’
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