Egypt's Israel-collaborating regime of torturers opens Rafah for two days

The Egyptian torturers' tools of the trade
Egypt has reopened its Rafah border for two days to enable students and the sick to cross, a security official has told AFP.

"The border has opened for two days to allow the passage of Palestinian students and the sick who are stuck on the Egyptian side," the border official said, asking not to be named.

"Palestinian patients who finished their treatment at Egyptian hospitals and other humanitarian cases will be allowed to return back home," Egypt's official MENA news agency quoted Palestinian embassy.

What can you say about the rotten regime in Egypt except that they are traitors to the Palestinian cause and a bunch of torturers - with a little help from British intelligence, as revealed in the case of Binyam Mohamed and now also Kazhar Khan.

There were more revelations this week about the British government’s complicity in the torture of suspects as part of the “war on terror”.

Azhar Khan, a 26 year old from Slough, Berkshire, was detained in Egypt in July last year. During his detention he was handcuffed, forced to stand naked with a hood over his head, beaten, subjected to electric shocks and interrogated.

During his interrogation, Azhar said he could hear other inmates who were also being tortured. He heard a man with a British accent asking questions.

The foreign office has been forced to admit that it made no complaints to the Egyptian government about how Azhar, a British citizen, had been treated.

Foreign office officials also admitted that the government had failed to take any action over other British nationals who had been tortured abroad. The countries involved in the allegations include Pakistan, Bangladesh and Syria.

More on the UK torture at Socialist Worker (UK)

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