#Jan25 Faces of Torture الجلادون

When we stormed State Security Police headquarters in Nasr City, which hosted one of Mubarak’s largest torture facilities, on Saturday I found two DVDs in one of the offices, both titled “أرشيف السادة ضباط الجهاز” The Agency Officers’ Archive. The DVDs included profile pictures of State Security officers, organized in folders. Each folder had the officers’ name. Some however did not have the names. There were also sub folders that included pictures of those officers in social events like weddings.

I don’t know what was the purpose of these two DVDs, but I sincerely thank the State Security officials who gave us this present on a golden plate. I’ve uploaded the profile pictures to this flickr set and added them to the Piggipedia. I urge you all to circulate them. And if you have any more information about those officers please come forward.

Each member of SS has to be brought to justice. This was an agency devoted to spying, surveillance, torture and murder. Every member of this organization from the informer all the way up to the generals should be prosecuted. SS has to be dissolved. It cannot be “restructured” like what the current PM is calling for.

Although those criminals violated our private lives on a daily basis, bugging our phones, offices, and even our bedrooms, I will respect the privacy of their families and will not publish the photos of their social events that included family members.

Dear SS, yes you had every right to be worried from the Piggipedia. We will expose you, bring shame on you. You forced millions of Egyptians to live in fear and terror. Now you have to answer for your crimes.

UPDATE: Flickr has censored the photos, but they can be downloaded here…

9 Responses

1. #Jan25 Hisham Abu Gheida هشام أبو غيدة جلاد أمن الدولة « 3arabawy

   March 11, 2011 - 3:16 AM

   [...] above photo was found on a DVD in State Security Police Nasr City headquarters. These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web [...]

2. Alicia

   March 11, 2011 - 8:43 AM

   These dudes look very menacing. Nazi redux. Not a lot of zabeebas though – not that that means anything. Wrong is wrong; greed is greed; evil is evil.

3. Said Gomaa

   March 13, 2011 - 5:53 PM

   The pictures has been removed by flicker; may be on the request of the current Egyptian goverment? Can you post it on a differnet web site or exchange file system? Thanks.

   ..Said

4. Jillian C. York » Building Human Rights Into Your Social Site

   March 15, 2011 - 9:10 PM

   [...] to Flickr, noting on the page where the photographs originated and why he was posting them (here’s why). Flickr then removed the photographs, something which surely happens all the time and may have [...]

5. Mils

   March 17, 2011 - 11:45 PM

   hi folks.
   I just browsed the Names Unknown folder and was struck by how many of the officers had strange pigmentation / scarring in areas between the bridge of the nose and the hair line …. I’m sure that such pigmentation / scarring is something one would expect across a wide cross-section of any population, but it seems odd that so many of this SMALL cross-section share this ….
   Any ideas …?
   I’d be interested in your thoughts.
   Mils.
   mh323@le.ac.uk

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   March 18, 2011 - 12:15 AM

   [...] found on the SS DVDs a couple of personal profile pictures of him, as well as some pictures from a wedding involving a [...]

7. General Tarek Mahmoud el-Rakaybi اللواء طارق محمود الركايبي « 3arabawy

   March 18, 2011 - 2:39 AM

   [...] Security Police General Tarek Mahmoud el-Rakaybi, whose photos I found on the SS DVDs, was one of the senior officials in the agency, before he was promoted in 2009 by General Habib [...]

8. #AmnDawla #SS Brigadier General Mohamed Mahmoud Borghosh عميد أمن دولة محمد محمود برغش « 3arabawy

   March 23, 2011 - 4:40 AM

   [...] the sets I found on the Nasr City SS DVDs was one of Brigadier General Mohamed Mahmoud [...]

9. #Piggipedia #AmnDawla #SS General Mortada Ibrahim لواء أمن دولة مرتضى إبراهيم « 3arabawy

   March 24, 2011 - 6:57 AM

   [...] of the sets of photos I found on the Nasr City SS DVDs, was that of General Mortada Ibrahim. The general hails from a powerful Upper Egyptian family, [...]