{"id":2423,"date":"2007-11-22T07:54:31","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T07:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2007-11-22T07:54:31","modified_gmt":"2007-11-22T07:54:31","slug":"2007-11-22-denied-egypt-bloggers-plan-parallel-torture-film-festival-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2423","title":{"rendered":"DENIED: Egypt Bloggers Plan Parallel Torture Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\"><a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/200711210423.html\">Egypt: Bloggers Plan Parallel Film Festival on Police Torture<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Egyptian bloggers have announced that, while the Cairo film festival is taking place from 27 November to 7 December, they will hold a parallel festival in which a &#8220;Golden Whip&#8221; will be awarded to the best video showing &#8220;controversial acts of torture allegedly committed by the security authorities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Two policemen received three-month jail sentences on 5 November for mistreating a detainee. A video of the incident, filmed with a mobile phone, caused an outcry among human rights activists and enabled identification of the two police officers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, Hossam points out that YouTube has <a href=\"\/arabawy\/2007\/11\/22\/youtube-disables-anti-police-brutality-channel\/\">pulled down the Egyptian police torture page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: <\/strong>Blogger Wael Abbas, who released some of the first torture videos, is denying that any such festival is taking place &#8211; see comments.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\"><a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/200711210423.html\">Egypt: Bloggers Plan Parallel Film Festival on Police Torture<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Egyptian bloggers have announced that, while the Cairo film festival is taking place from 27 November to 7 December, they will hold a parallel festival in which a &#8220;Golden Whip&#8221; will be awarded to the best video showing &#8220;controversial acts of torture allegedly committed by the security authorities.&#8221;<br \/>\nTwo policemen received three-month jail sentences on 5 November for mistreating a detainee. A video of the incident, filmed with a mobile phone, caused an outcry among human rights activists and enabled identification of the two police officers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, Hossam points out that YouTube has <a href=\"\/arabawy\/2007\/11\/22\/youtube-disables-anti-police-brutality-channel\/\">pulled down the Egyptian police torture page<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong>Update: <\/strong>Blogger Wael Abbas, who released some of the first torture videos, is denying that any such festival is taking place &#8211; see comments.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[6,228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}