Hopeless in Cairo: Torture and Death of a Small man…………..
“They come every day, the dead. Some die in accidents, others from natural causes, but the bodywasher knew something scary had happened when the sheet was lifted off Farouk Sayed. "I realized he was beaten to death once I saw him. I could see the marks on his wrists, chest and back," said Moetaz Abdel Aziz, who bathes and purifies the dead at a Cairo morgue as part of the Muslim burial rite. "While I was washing him, I kept saying, 'I protest to God, who is my best resort, against whoever did this to him.' " Sayed's wife, Takwa, thought her husband seemed so small in death, shrunken almost. On that September day, her family arrived with a rented station wagon and a borrowed coffin. They headed out of the city and south along the Nile, until they reached the graveyard where Sayed, a 38-year-old waiter trying to stay clean and raise a family, was lowered into the earth before sunset. It's been months; a holy feast and a new year have passed. Sayed's killers are still at large, but Takwa said they'd be easy to find. Her husband died in police custody……… The prosecutor's office is investigating whether three officers, including a lieutenant, handcuffed Sayed and tortured him to death. There is no hurry to solve the case; the prosecutor has yet to even interrogate the officers………”
In the moderate New Middle East, where president chose to deliver his speech of “hope” to the Arab world.
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