Muslim Woman Seeks Police Chief's Help to Marry a Copt - Family Arbitrarily Arrested and Held Until Son Appears Before Him
http://voiceofthecopts.org/en/news/muslim_woman_seeks_police_chief_s_help_to_marry_a_copt_family_ar.html 20 March, 2009 10:54:00 <http://voiceofthecopts.org/en/author/ashraf/>admin Emacs! According to human rights lawyer Ms. Howaida El-Omda the whole incident started when allegedly a woman lodged a complaint with Al-Khosous Police Station accusing the Copt, Mr. Maher Fahmy, of trying to burn down her apartment's door. When the police could not find him, chief of criminal investigations Captain Sherif Hossameddin detained the accused whole Coptic family of five, including father, mother, two of Maher's brothers and his wife. They were told that they would be detained until Maher comes to the police station. They were kept the whole of the night of 10.3.2009 during which they were subjected to beating until the next morning. When El-Omda arrived at the police station in the morning, the elderly mother was completely unconscious and needed medical attention, besides they were all handcuffed. She continued by saying that she soon realized that she was not dealing merely with a regular case of a police complaint against Maher for allegedly trying to burn down a door. She was informed by the elderly parents that a Muslim woman, 10 years older than their son Maher had gone to the Police Chief asking for his help as she is in love with the already-wedded Maher, and would like to marry him!!! When lawyer El-Omda could not meet Captain Sherif from 7 am to 2 pm, and was not even allowed access to the police report, if there was one, she went and lodged a complaint with the Public Prosecutor, to speed up the procedures. Upon her return back to the police station, the Police Captain was friendly and promised to release the detainees. However, at midnight she was called back to the police as the three men were only released, but the two women were still held pending the appearance of Maher at the police station. She returned back to the police station and remained with the detainees until 5am the following morning, to make sure they would be released this time. Police Captain Sherif Hossameddin threatened the family that if Maher did not appear, they might be detained again!!! Howaida El Omda says "which Constitution or Law gives the right to detain a whole family of women and men, just because of a report filed against one of its members, a report which could potentially be malicious"!!! El Omda has filed another complaint to the Public Prosecutor to gain access to police records, which she doubts that one ever existed. It is worth noting that Voice of the Copts has previously reported that The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) urged on 24.12.2008, the Public Prosecutor to indict the Al-Khosous chief of criminal investigations, Captain Sherif Hossameddin, following credible and consistent complaints of abuses he committed against a number of men and women from the Al-Khosous town in the governorate of Qalioubiya, including arbitrary arrest, hostage-taking, unlawful detention, torture and sexual assault. Victim: "Police Captain Covered my Eyes While He Sexually Assaulted my Wife" <*}}}>< <http://www.holypostage.com/>Custom Faith-based U.S. Postage <*}}}>< + <*}}}>< <http://astore.amazon.com/halthekin-20>Catholic on Amazon <*}}}>< <*}}}>< <http://www.halfthekingdom.org/on+allposters+today.html>on AllPosters today <*}}}>< + <*}}}>< <http://www.holypostage.com/>Holy Postage <*}}}>< <*}}}><<http://www.halfthekingdom.org/>Half the <http://www.halfthekingdom.org/>Kingdom!<*}}}>< + "A person is a person, no matter how small." Dr. Seuss --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Please note that I do not send or open attachments sent to this list. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Catholics on Fire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Catholics-on-Fire May the blessing of Jesus and our Blessed Mother be with you -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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