Egyptian cartoonist Ashraf Omar tortured in detention
According to the cartoonist’s wife, Nada Mugheeth, and lawyer Khaled Ali, Ashraf Omar was physically abused and tortured while in detention.
While official documents date his arrest to Wednesday 24 July, the cartoonist was taken from his home in the suburbs of Giza province on the night of Monday 22 July, before reappearing before the State Security Prosecutor’s Office on the evening of Wednesday 24 July, almost 60 hours later. It was during this enforced disappearance that he was allegedly subjected to violence and electric shock torture.