Rape to strengthen the regime

Egyptian military and special services massively use sexual violence for reprisals with dissenting

In Egypt, special services, military and police, still fighting the threat of Islamism represented by the Muslim Brothers and supporters of the overthrown President Mohammed Mursi , recently sentenced to death, are committed by ten thousand sexual crimes against everyone who is considered a threat to the regime of the new President Abdul-Fattacha ASSIS . These include activists and leaders of opposition movements, and NPO members, and all LGBT community. This is the main conclusion of a report , published by just international human rights organizations.

The new authorities, the army and law enforcement agencies of Egypt are massively used as an instrument of strengthening fear of a new regime and suppress all dissent, is said in a report prepared by the International Human Rights (FIDH) with the participation of Amnesty International. After the military coup on July 3, 2013, as a result of which President-Islamist Mohammed Mursi was overthrown, on May 16 of this year, together with another 16 closest associates, sentenced to death, in Egypt, although a secular but extremely repressive regime was established every day becoming more and more cruel, the authors of the document say.

The report of the International Federation for Human Rights states that the number of sexual crimes committed in Egypt by special services, police and military in the last two years has reached a huge scale, despite the promises of the new regime to make a struggle with such violence the priority task of the state.

Demonstration in Cairo against sexual violence. Autumn 2013

The crimes committed against sexual integrity have a variety of forms - from direct, very often group rape and threats of rape in prisons and police areas to direct torture, public undressings, examinations and searches and other humiliations with sexual subtext, like "virgin tests", coercion, and subsequent blackmail on this basis. By and large, almost all the Egyptians of both sexes, who are now delayed on one or another reason, are subjected to different sexual violence, regardless of the charges and circumstances of the arrest.

The authors of the report emphasize that sexual violence has historically been one of the favorite guns of suppression of society in Egypt under all authorities and regimes, starting since Gamal Abdel Naser , who created the country's modern intelligence services, which have been more than a dozen, but it has reached its peak today. Since 2013, not a single police officer, state or army security services, among which the largest Al-AMN al-Vatani has been enjoyed by the most bad fame (the Presentation Department of the Homeland) was held accountable, despite the testimony of thousands of victims. Says a 23-year-old Cairo student and civil activist Yasmin El Baramaui , who participated in 2014 in a demonstration against strengthening the military power:

- When I was dumped to the ground with a blow of a club, a police car drove up behind and specially pressed my long hair with wheels. And they took advantage of the fact that I was actually crucified on the asphalt. They grabbed my legs, ripped off clothes and linen and turned on their stomach. I don’t want to paint these ugly details now. Several men-police raped me like each of them wanted. I screamed and cried, but it did not help me.

Graffiti with the inscription in Arabic "There is no sexual aggression!" On the wall of the Presidential Palace in Cairo

The report of the International Federation for Human Rights is full of such evidence and stories of victims of violence and their relatives, although in most cases the victims, fearing new humiliation and publicity and not hoping for fair justice, prefer to hide the facts of crimes committed against them. The impunity of criminals practically legalized by the authorities only contributes to the fact that the scale of violence is progressing monthly, the authors of the document say.

According to them, most often in Egypt, criminals in uniforms raped and humiliately humiliation as "ideological" opponents of the regime, women-activists of human rights and civilian organizations, students of Islamic universities, family members of their political opponents, including very young children, as well as, especially members of the LGBT community. In Egypt, where Islam is a dominant religion, homosexuals were always in an extremely vulnerable position, but it was with the coming of the “secular” regime of the former Minister of Defense of As-Sisi that an organized campaign of intolerance was deployed against them. In this case, the Egyptian law enforcement agencies say that they are “fighting sexual violence”, which gays and lesbians allegedly propagate and practice and which is believed to threatens the country's national security. At the same time, homosexuality in Egypt is not considered a criminal offense - the detainees are usually accused of "obscene behavior", "prostitution" and "hooligan violation of public order."

A group of Egyptian men in a cage in the courtroom, detained for "obscene behavior." November 1, 2014

The situation with human rights in Egypt in the last year is concerned about the world human rights community more and more, from the moment when the Abdul-Fattah As-Sisi regime was massively, hundreds, to pass out death sentences to their opponents, although the Egyptian generals who had previously come to power declared themselves as a “reasonable civilized force”, ready to challenge the really overwhelming country Radical Islamism. The top of this chain of the declared executions, however, not yet executed, was the death sentence of Mohammed Mursi and other Muslim Brothers Muslims announced on May 16:

- After a thorough study of the articles of the Criminal Code, the court decided, in accordance with Egyptian laws, to transfer its verdict to the approval of the country's supreme mufti. The final sentence will be announced on June 2.

Mursi and his associates were now found guilty of espionage in favor of unnamed foreign states and involvement in the escape from Egyptian prisons in early 2011 thousands of political prisonersduring mass folk speeches that led to the resignation of many years of President Hosni Mubarak. Earlier, in April of this year, Mohammed Mursi was sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges related to the persecution of participants in anti -government speeches in 2012, when he was already the head of state.