Egypt: Khaled Said – An Emergency Murder by An Emergency Law · Global Voices
Marwa Rakha

Khaled Said before he was tortured
Khaled Said, a 28-year-old Egyptian from the coastal city of Alexandria, was allegedly tortured to death at the hands of two officers who wanted to search him under the emergency law. He asked for a reason or a warrant – they killed him. “The emergency law is a tool in the hands of the executive power to storm many basic rights and freedom guaranteed by the Egyptian Constitution” Explains the International Federation for Human Rights.
We are all Khaled Said is a Facebook page that was created upon his murder condemning police brutality. The creator wrote in Arabic and in English:
It's a tragic story about a young man, he was brutally murdered ! why ? because he refused to be treated inhumanly by two savage Cops who had no right to do what they were doing ; to treat people like sheep and consider the citizens inferior.
The story began on 7th June 2010 when Khaled Saeed went to his usual Internet cafe in Sidigaber …
Then two wild detective cops – Mahmoud Alfallah and Awaad Elmokhber/the detective – ambushed that cafe asking people for their IDs which is totally out of their authority and without legal permission He – Khaled – did reject that way of inhumane treatment and consequently was attacked so viciously , was kicked in his chest and belly severely, and his skull was smashed with the marble bar before all people and witnesses in the cafe while Khaled was bleeding. Then savage cops abducted Khaled and put him inside the police vehicle to continue torturing him to death in the police station. Finally, they threw his corpse in the street to claim that he was attacked by some strangers in order to avoid responsibility.
According to what we have known, there's systematic campaign to terrify the witnesses and prevent them from testifying on what they saw in the cafe….
Khaled's is not and won't be the only case, there are lots of people who had the same fate and disappeared and became dead on arrival.
All of this is a result for the oppression system that Mubarak control Egypt under emergency law which gives the police the upper hands to treat the residents as slaves.
Thus we the group of the change in Egypt supporters urge you to interfere and to force the authorities to investigate and explain what happened to the public and to condemn it strongly.
Wael Nawara says that Khaled was the victim of a rotten constitution:
لم يقتل مخبران خالد
بل قتله دستور معيب
قاتل خالد سيظل طليقاً يضرب ضرباته فيقتل الأبرياء ….
لأننا نظن أن تغيير الدستور من الرفاهيات …
لأننا نظن أن لقمة العيش تستلزم المشي جنب الحيط …
خالد ما كانش في مظاهرة …
خالد كان في كافيه …
واتقتل لما اعترض على طغيان شوية مخبرين كانوا بيقلبوا رواد المقهى …
لأن النظام قاعد بجحافل …
والأمن قاعد بالنظام …
والشعب لا بيجيب ده ولا يعرف يمشي دوكها ولا بيهش ولا بينش …
Amr Salama – an avid fighter against the emergency law- wrote:
Abdel Rahman Fares mourned Khaled saying:
في أي بلد محترم كان يجب على الفور أن تستقيل كل الحكومة
وأن تتم محاكمة المسؤلين عن هذه الجريمة النكراء
وعلى رأسهم وزير الداخلية حبيب العادلي
وأن تكون محاكمة الوزير والمسؤلين علنية أمام الشعب
وأن يلقوا أشد العقاب
I am really curious to know the officers’ justification; what did they write in their report? Did they write that the citizen flipped and beat himself to death? Or that he died of a sudden heart attack? This is downright blasphemy! I know that some officers beat up people in custody but they make sure not to leave visible traces but looking at Khaled's pictures – this is just mere brutality; he was the victim of some sick sadist. Please someone answer me: Is this officer still on the job?
In any decent civilized country, such an incident would have been enough for the government to resign, those in charge of this murder would have been tried, and the trial of the Minister of Interior and the officers should be public. I demand maximum punishment for this crime.
On Facebook, Dr Ayman Nour wrote a note condemning the regime for this horrendous crime, narrating its horrific details:
Dr Nour posted pictures of the victim HERE (WARNING: VERY BRUTAL AND MIGHT BE OFFENSIVE FOR SOME VIEWERS). Until the writing of this post, there were around 340 comments on the pictures.
Appy and Kareem Beheiry mourned the victim on their blogs and shared the same pictures.
Princess Sara is scared. She wrote:
Ramez Abbas wrote him an ode: