A no-brainer, right? From Amnesty International.
The possible reinstatement of two policemen found guilty of torture would be an implicit encouragement from the Egyptian authorities for all police officers to use torture, Amnesty International said today as it urged Egypt’s Interior Minister not to allow this.
“The reinstatement of these two policemen would send a negative signal about the Egyptian authorities’ commitment to the fight against torture of prisoners, as allegations of torture and other ill-treatment in Egypt’s police stations and detention centres remain rife,†said Malcolm Smart, director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme. “It would be wholly inappropriate for either of these two men to be reinstated in the police or appointed to other official bodies, as well as law enforcement or security forces branches.â€
Islam Nabih and Reda Fathi were released late March after serving a reduced sentence of three years each for the unlawful detention, torture and rape of bus driver Emad al-Kabir while he was in their custody in 2006. Both were also convicted of obtaining and distributing materials harmful to public moral and decency in connection with their filming of their rape of Emad al-Kabir on a mobile phone camera, and their public circulation of this film in order to further degrade and humiliate him. – Read on
