The Zeitoun Family Court has ordered the re-openning of investigation into the death of citizen Mohamed Abdel Qader, of Hadayek el-Qobba, who was tortured to death by State Security Captain Ashraf Mustafa Hussein in September 2003.

The family had dropped the case, under pressures from State Security who detained Mohamed’s brother Sameh without charges to blackmail the victim’s family. But, after relentless campaiging by the Association for Human Rights Legal Aid, supported by the Kefaya bloggers, the family showed up in court yesterday and admitted they had dropped the case under intimidation.

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