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On the night of 22 January 2015, several members of the Homeland Security -Egypt'smain domestic security services - and of the General Investigations Department - the Criminal Investigations Department - broke into the home of a freelance journalist in 6th of October City, 30km west of Cairo. Without showing any warrant, they searched the rooms and confiscated his computer, mobile phones and identification papers before arresting him. Brought to the Security Forces camp of Sheikh Zayed, he was detained incommunicado and tortured for two consecutive days to force him to confess to crimes. |
