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### Viewing cable 10CAIRO147, A/S POSNER PRESSES GOE ON POLICE BRUTALITY, NGO

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10CAIRO147 | 2010-01-31 15:03 | 2011-02-16 21:09 | CONFIDENTIAL | Embassy Cairo

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    VZCZCXRO2495
    RR RUEHROV
    DE RUEHEG #0147/01 0311502
    ZNY CCCCC ZZH
    R 311502Z JAN 10
    FM AMEMBASSY CAIRO
    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 0092
    INFO ARAB ISRAELI COLLECTIVE
    RHEHNSC/WHITE HOUSE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 CAIRO 000147

    SIPDIS
    DRL FOR A/S POSNER
    FOR NEA, NEA/ELA AND DRL/NESCA

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 2035/01/31
    TAGS: PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
    SUBJECT: A/S POSNER PRESSES GOE ON POLICE BRUTALITY, NGO
    REGISTRATIONS

    REF: CAIRO 47; 09 CAIRO 2164; 09 CAIRO 2064; 09 CAIRO 451
    07 CAIRO 3214

    CLASSIFIED BY: Margaret Scobey, Ambassador, State; REASON: 1.4(B),
    (D)

    ¶1. KEY POINTS

    -- (C) In meetings January 12-13, A/S Posner raised the issue of
    police brutality and prison conditions with senior GOE officials.

    -- (C) Interior Ministry State Security (SSIS) Director Hassan
    Abdel Rahman asserted that SSIS has not abused prisoners "in the
    past ten years."  He claimed that the MOI played no role in the
    case of Cairo resident XXXXXXXXXXXX who, according to multiple NGOs, was abused repeatedly by police in January 2009.  Rahman claimed there are no problems with prison conditions.

    --  (C) MFA Deputy Assistant Minister for Human Rights Wael
    Aboulmagd said the GOE takes the issue of police brutality
    seriously, and has increased the number of prosecutions against
    offices for torture and abuse.

    ¶2. (C) Comment:  Per ref B, credible human rights lawyers believe
    police brutality continues to be a pervasive, daily occurrence in
    GOE detention centers, and that SSIS has adapted to increased media
    and blogger focus on police brutality by hiding the abuse and
    pressuring victims not to bring cases.  NGOs assess prison
    conditions to be poor, due to overcrowding and lack of medical
    care, food, clean water, and proper ventilation.  Per ref E,
    following a landmark 2007 sentencing of police officers for
    assaulting and sodomizing a bus driver, courts have continued to
    sentence officers to prison terms for brutality.  End comment.

    --------------------------------------------- -----

    Police Brutality and Prison Conditions

    --------------------------------------------- -----

    ¶3. (C) In a January 12 meeting with Interior Ministry State
    Security Director Rahman, A/S Posner asked what measures the GOE
    takes to address police brutality and difficult prison conditions,
    and what the U.S. could do to help.  Rahman said "in the past ten
    years" there has been "no abuse of prisoners at all."  He
    acknowledged there may have been "some violations" against
    "terrorists" in prison in the 1970's and 1980's.  Posner raised the
    case of XXXXXXXXXXXXX who was abused by police in XXXXXXXXXXX according to multiple NGO reports (refs C, D).  (Note:  The Ambassador raised this case with the Interior Minister in XXXXXXXX, per ref D.  End note.)  Rahman responded that when citizens do not "get what they want from the police, they become angry."  He asserted that XXXXXXXXXXXXhusband is a "criminal," and beat her in the midst of a family dispute.  Rahman said the MOI punishes any officer who commits violations.  Rahman also said the Interior Ministry treats all prisoners well.  More than 1,500 prisoners
    pursue university studies, he claimed, and he noted that the
    government is focused on prisoners' health and their
    rehabilitation.

    ¶4. (C) A/S Posner also raised police brutality with MFA Deputy
    Assistant Minister for Human Rights Wael Aboulmagd who responded
    that the GOE takes the issue seriously.  Aboulmagd said that since
    2005, the Interior Ministry stopped paying fines for police
    officers found to have abused detainees.  He noted increased
    prosecutions against police officers for torture and abuse.
    Aboulmagd said the Interior Ministry is participating in human
    rights training through the UN Development Program, and internal
    courses.  He opined that it would take a "generation of training"
    before the police accepted the concept of human rights.

    CAIRO 00000147  002 OF 002

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    U.S. Support for Civil Society

    ---------------------------------------

    ¶5. (C) Rahman asserted that the U.S. funds NGOs and human rights
    organizations dominated by "communists and extremists."  He claimed
    these "communists" do not care about democracy, and want to weaken
    the GOE in response to Egypt's movement away from the Soviet Union
    and toward the U.S. in the 1970's.  The Ambassador pushed back,
    saying that the U.S. does not fund NGOs connected to the Muslim
    Brotherhood or extremists.  She noted the U.S. funds NGOs to
    promote civic education, human rights training and election
    monitoring.  She urged SSIS to allow increased registration of
    NGOs.  A/S Posner urged Rahman to allow NGOs to register even if
    they are critical of the GOE.

    ¶6. (U) A/S Posner cleared this message.
    SCOBEY

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