Monday,  June 4, 2012 • Vol. 12--No. 326 • 28 of 32 •  Other Editions

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After Mubarak verdict, justice for victims of Egypt's old regime still only a distant hope

• CAIRO (AP) -- Tied to a bed, Nasr al-Sayed Hassan Nasr was tortured for days with electric shocks during his 2010 detention for membership in the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood -- one of tens of thousands of political prisoners under Hosni Mubarak's 29-year rule.
• Stripped and handcuffed in a painful position, Nasr described how security agents shocked his genitals, chest and other bodies parts. "They hadn't asked me a single question at this stage. They seemed to just want me to collapse," he told Human Rights Watch.
• And, as with virtually all the abuses under Mubarak's regime, the perpetrators

were never brought to justice.
• The mixed verdict in Mubarak's trial Saturday is a painful reminder that 15 months after the authoritarian leader's ouster in a popular uprising, there has been no move to bring about full accountability for wrongdoing under his regime.
• Mubarak, 84, and his ex-security chief Habib el-Adly were both convicted of failing to stop the killings of some 900 protesters during last year's uprising and were sentenced to life in prison. However, six top police commanders were acquitted of ordering the

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