The Curse of the Fourth Floor لعنة الدور الرابع

Fellow activists and citizens, Please avoid residing or visiting friends who live on the fourth floor…

A court sentenced two Giza police corporals to only five years in prison for killing a plumber in Omraniya by throwing him off the fourth floor…

And in Damanhour, State Security police threw Muslim Brotherhood activist Fares Barakat off the fourth floor for daring to ask whether the police had a search warrant to storm his house…

And let’s not forget Maadi resident Shereen Ghareeb who also flew from his fourth floor balcony, with a little help from officer Shehab el-Sha’er. The latter got away with murder because he is the nephew of the Cairo Security Director General Ismail el-Sha’er.

Thank God I live on the ground floor…

2 Responses

1. The Curse of the Fourth Floor لعنة الدور الرابع at 3arabawy | The Arabist

   May 28, 2009 - 10:00 AM

   [...] The Curse of the Fourth Floor لعنة الدور الرابع at 3arabawy Hossam points out that there have been at least three documented incidents of Egyptian security pushing people off the fourth floor of buildings during arrests. Eerie. Published by arabist May 28th, 2009 Categories: Asides. [...]

2. Celebrating Police (State) Day in Hosni Mubarak's Egypt | Egypt

   January 25, 2010 - 6:54 PM

   [...] torture appear daily in the local independent press. In the past few years there have been several cases of police throwing people from windows. In July 2008, police apprehended a borderline mentally disabled man and, after accusing him of [...]

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