Egypt must suspend security forces involved in ‘torture’ video

29 September 2011 A video on Youtube shows Egyptian army and police officers beating and torturing detainees. The Egyptian authorities should suspend members of the army and the security forces responsible for abusing detainees, Amnesty International said today after a video was published showing officers beating and torturing detainees.The video, which was allegedly filmed at a police station in the El-Daqahliya governorate north of Cairo and published on YouTube, shows three handcuffed men in a room surrounded by uniformed army and police officers. Officers laugh and mock two of the detainees…

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