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Protests planned to mark anniversary of Khaled Said's death Demonstrations to commemorate Egypt's most famous victim of police brutality will target stations in Cairo and Alexandria as anger builds over ongoing torture
Activists are calling for protests in front of police stations on 6 June to mark the first anniversary of the death of Khaled Said, Egypt's most famous victim of police brutality. The planned protests will take place in front of the Sidi Gaber police station in Said's native city of Alexandria and the Bulak El Dakrour police station in Cairo. The Sidi Gaber police station was chosen because it is where the two policemen who beat Said to death worked. The Bulak El Dakrour police station is where Ramzi Salaheddine was tortured last week while being questioned for failing to pay a debt. Saleheddine later died in a hospital and his death seen as the first post-uprising incidence of police torture. The protesters are voicing their anger that police brutality and the torture of victims in stations have continued despite the January 25 revolution. The death of Said is believed to be one of the triggers of the January 25 revolution, after images of his battered face were circulated across social media sites. Following his death a Facebook page was founded under the name of 'We are all Khaled Said'. Aiming to help fight injustice in Egypt, the site's founders were among the first to call for the 25 January protests which eventually led to the fall of longtime presidentHosni Mubarak.
