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08/01/2007 17:52 - News24.com
Video causes deadly clash
Cairo - The Egyptian interior minister ordered security services to discover the identity of a female suspect apparently being tortured by police in a video publicised by the press, a said security source on Monday.
A still frame from a video published on the front pages of the independent dailies al-Masri al-Youm and al-Fajr Sunday reportedly showed a screaming woman, tied to a bar hung between two chairs, being interrogated.
The short video, available on the internet and showing a young woman painfully confessing to murder, was described as a police interrogation.
The order for an investigation comes hard on the heels of the detention of two policemen on December 27 on charges of sexually assaulting a minibus driver after another graphic video was posted on the web.
Human rights activists both inside and outside Egypt have repeatedly alleged that police use torture and abuse as a routine tool during questioning - a charge the interior ministry denies.
In recent months, however, grainy amateur videos often taken using cellphones have appeared purporting to show examples of police brutality.
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