[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: In a highly disturbing report “Al Ahram”– long regarded as Agypt’s leading daily newspaper – in its English online edition reports that a controversial hardliner group in Egypt announces that it purchased 1000 tasers to help its cadre defend themselves as they ‘promote virtue’ and ‘combat vice’ on the country’s streets. (Note: […]
[[SUMMARY /COMMENTS Fresh violence broke out in and around Cairo’s Tahrir Square early Tuesday, in conflicts with the nation’s military-led government. CNN saw captured protesters beaten and shocked with Taser-like devices, whether or not these were TAER Inc. products or generic tasers is not known. (See previous stories under EGYPT; only reference to tasers in […]
[[SUMMARY /COMMENTS: 8 months after the fall of Mubarak, 22 Copts – a Christian minority, some 10% of the Egyptian population, comparable to the Greek Orthodox Church – are killed by police in a peaceful protest march. The police used tasers among other weapons. “I tried to talk to officers, I told them to stop […]
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : “Torture by police and military personnel remains widespread with hundreds of cases involving beatings, electrocution, and sexual assault reported … A video was released lately revealing army and police officers torturing citizens in Kurdi police station in the governorate of Dakahlia (lying north east of Cairo). The video showed three […]
[[SUMMARY /COMMENTS : Video posted on YouTube of police officers laughing as they taser detainees in a police station in Daqahliya, north of Cairo. le East News Agency (MENA) says despite discourse of “respect for human rights” such abuses are frequent in Egypt. Amnesty International (France demands that Egyptian military and public security stop torturing detainees.]] […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: This story is being transmitted on numerous sites. Tahrir Square : This morning (15 April), as Egyptians continued to demand more transparent measures to end the Mubarak sytem, the military attempts to break up the demonstration: “At around 3am local time on Saturday, soldiers and police attacked the Tahrir Square sit-in using […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: CNN reporting from Egypt. The critical reference here is “One of the women named in the report was a 20-year-old hairdresser named Salwa Hosseini. She described to CNN how uniformed soldiers tied her up on the grounds of the Egyptian Museum, forced her to the ground and then slapped her and shocked […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: “Students of Cairo University on Thursday staged demonstrations in protest against military police using taser stun guns to disperse a sit-in by students of the faculty of mass communications.” Tasers – or is the term being used generically?]] Photographed by السيد الباز almasryalyoum.com, Abul Soud Mohamed , Waleed Magdy, Dalia Othman Students […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: A report from the Israeli newspaper “Haaretz”. Two weeks after Mubarak’s resignation, orittesters demand no mombers of Mubarak’s cabinet be included in the new government: “‘Military police used batons and tasers to hit the protesters,’Ahmed Bahgat, one of the protesters, told Reuters by telephone. ‘The military is once again using force. But […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: An Egyptian military spokesman says “unintentional confrontations between the military police and the youth of the revolution.” had taken place in Tahrir Square in the previous days. “According to a security official and witnesses, military police surrounded protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir square shortly after midnight and used batons and tasers to disperse […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: a long article which we reproduce in its entirety. The section concerning tasers is in bold, about halof way through: “I saw an Egyptian solider who had a taser gun. He was igniting the taser gun into the face of the people to try to intimidate them. It was a bit of […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: “They started beating me up in the street their rubber batons and an electric Taser gun, shocking me,” an activist told journalists … The taser was clearly just one weapon in this horrendous “army riot”. Its mention, however, is surprising, since GlobalShock had no previous information about Egypt acquiring tasers. This raises […]