Egyptian anger grows after latest case of death by torture

[Swede]

Egyptian officials have tortured a 24-year-old prisoner to death, provoking accusations that the increasingly unpopular junta is failing to dismantle Hosni Mubarak's brutal security apparatus.

Essam Ali Atta, a civilian serving a two-year jail term in Cairo's high-security Tora prison following his conviction in a military tribunal earlier this year for an apparently "common crime", was reportedly attacked by prison guards after trying to smuggle a mobile phone sim card into his cell.

According to statements from other prisoners who witnessed the assault, Atta had large water hoses repeatedly forced into his mouth and anus on more than one occasion, causing severe internal bleeding. An officer then transferred Atta to a central Cairo hospital, but he died within an hour.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/28/egypt-anger-grows-death-torture

[Arctic Dave]

1. How's that "awakening" working for ya?

It appears more and more these people were unknowing accomplices in a scam to trade one dictator for another.



But hey, they Levi's, Coca Cola and Marlboros now in trade for oil contracts. Smell the freedom!

[gratuitous]

2. Haven't they heard of outsourcing?

You send these dangerous offenders to some other country, and they do the dirty work. Your hands stay squeaky clean! Gee whiz, it's like the United States hasn't shown the world how to do ANYTHING in the last 10 years.

I wonder if any of the other "Arab Spring" countries will have simply exchanged one ruthless strong man for another?