{"id":5318,"date":"2020-03-21T21:14:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T21:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/man.aisoftwareinsights.com\/?p=5318"},"modified":"2022-10-16T21:20:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T21:20:05","slug":"no-one-cared-he-was-a-child-egyptian-security-forces-abuse-of-children-in-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/man.aisoftwareinsights.com\/en\/no-one-cared-he-was-a-child-egyptian-security-forces-abuse-of-children-in-detention\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNo One Cared He Was A Child\u201d Egyptian Security Forces\u2019 Abuse of Children in Detention"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the Egyptian army forcibly removed Egypt\u2019s first elected president, Mohamed Morsy, in 2013, the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has greenlighted a nationwide crackdown on protesters, dissidents, political opponents, independent journalists, and human rights defenders. Egypt\u2019s security apparatus has arbitrarily arrested and prosecuted tens of thousands of persons. Human Rights Watch has found that torture crimes against detainees in Egypt are systematic, widespread and likely constitute crimes against humanity. The United Nations Committee against Torture found in June 2017 that that the facts \u201clead to the inescapable conclusion that torture is a systematic practice in Egypt.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As an integral part of this crackdown, police and officers of the Interior Ministry\u2019s National Security Agency have arbitrarily arrested, mistreated and tortured hundreds of children. Prosecutors and judges have exacerbated these abuses through due process violations and unfair trials.<\/p>\n

Karim Hamida Ali is just one child victim of the government\u2019s crackdown which has weakened the rule of law in Egypt to the point of extinction. International law and Egypt\u2019s Child Law prohibit the use of the death penalty for children. But Egyptian judicial authorities provisionally sentenced Karim to death in April 2019 for crimes allegedly committed when he was 17 years old, during a protest that damaged the fa\u00e7ade of a hotel but caused no injuries or deaths. National Security Agency officers detained Karim for more than a month in secret, leaving his family with no idea of his whereabouts, and tortured the boy until he confessed, his family told us. In October 2019, after a public outcry, the judge in the case cancelled Karim\u2019s death penalty, claiming he had not known the defendant was a child, but sentenced him to 10 years in prison. The court did not order any meaningful investigation into Karim\u2019s alleged torture, as required by Egyptian and international law, and used his confession as the basis for his conviction. \u201cNo one cared he was a child,\u201d a relative of Karim\u2019s said.<\/p>\n

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