The Egyptian Prosecution reveals the truth of the video of “torture of detainees” in a police station

The investigations of the Egyptian Public Prosecution refuted what some detainees at the Peace Police Department in Cairo claimed, in a video on social media, of being tortured by the police there.

The prosecution stated in an official statement that it published a number of local newspapers, that it had concluded that these allegations were not true, and that they had themselves inflicted injuries in custody, and filmed the circulating clip with a smuggled mobile phone, and then it was falsely broadcast to the prosecution.

And it stated that the Monitoring and Analysis Unit monitored a video clip circulating on social media, in which several people appeared in the detention headquarters of the Al-Salam Police Department, calling for help, claiming that they were assaulted, tortured and injured after police officers assaulted them, claiming the death of one of them, and denying them food.

She indicated that she began investigations, where she interrogated one of the detainees in the department in the presence of his lawyer, and he admitted that he had agreed with his family to smuggle a mobile phone into his prison during his visit to the department to communicate with them. They were in their possession, then they filmed the circulating video clip, showing their injuries, and claiming, contrary to the truth, that they had been subjected to physical torture by police officers in the department, and one of them broadcast it.

She confirmed that the detainees did this at the instigation of others inside and outside the country to cause instability, stir up strife and spread rumors, explaining in the context that the phone used for filming was seized.

The Public Prosecution charged the accused, who interrogated him, with several accusations that he denied, except for his acknowledgment of his participation in the introduction of prohibited items to the prison in violation of the laws and regulations regulating this, as well as his acknowledgment of the narration of filming the clip and what was alleged during it contrary to the truth, so the Public Prosecution ordered his precautionary detention pending investigations.

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