Speedy Torture Investigation Concludes!
Egyptian authorities are able to work with dispatch, it appears! Ahram Online reports the release of the four officers arrested for apparently electrocuting and slapping two detainees, in a widely circulated torture video. Why? The men were really, really nasty, a “security source” tells Ahram Online, and anyway, the video was fake.
Immediately after the release of the video the military judiciary announced that it would launch a “swift investigation” into the case. The four army officers who appeared in the video were transferred for military trial, but it was later announced that only two of the officers took part in the torture.
Now, however, the security source says that all four will be released and that an investigation into the matter has revealed that the detainees who appeared in the video were thugs and weapons smugglers, and had attacked homes and women in Daqahliya. Additionally, according to the investigation, the detainees had stolen the door of a prison cell and used it to protect their homes when they were being arrested and shot live ammunition at the officers who tried to detain them. One of them also slapped one of the army officers who were transferring him to the police station.
It is not yet clear why the video was deemed a fake.
