Mr Abou Al Maaty AL SAYED was directly taken to the Farag Police Station, where he was subjected to various acts of torture at the hands of two agents of the Criminal Investigation branch, Ali Maher and Saïd Chaarwy, who forced him to undress and shaved his hair, eyebrows and moustache. He was then beaten on his back, burnt with cigarettes and questioned about the possible location of his cousin Taher.

As he could not answer the questions he was asked, Mr Al Sayed was taken to another room where fifteen other agents waited for him. He was again stripped of his clothes and beaten. Each of the fifteen agents stepped on him as he was lying on the floor, and he was raped with a wooden stick.

Mr Al Sayed was then again questioned by two other agents, Moataz and Juma, who threatened him with "acts you cannot imagine" if he did not answer the questions about Taher.

Mr Al Sayed was finally released at 7:30pm that day, as it became obvious he had no information about his cousin's location. He then ran to Tahrir Square in order to seek refuge and testify to human rights organizations about what had happened to him.

Alkarama fears that the security forces may continue the patterns of past violations and proceed to arbitrarily detain and torture citizens in violation of Egypt's international and domestic obligations.