24. The Complainants assert that during the interrogation session, the Second
Victim agreed to sign a written confession recounting his role in the Taba
bombings. They state that during this session, the State Security Prosecutor
indicated on the interrogation sheet that there were no visible injuries on the
body of the Second Victim.
25. According to the Complainants, the Second Victim was denied access to a
lawyer during the interrogation sessions, which spanned a period of seven
months and that during the session held on 19 March 2006, the second victim
insisted on summoning lawyers to represent him and to that effect submitted
the names and mobile phone numbers of two human rights lawyers.
26. The Complainants further submit that on 25 March 2006, the State Security
Prosecutor presented a “complementary indictment” in relation to the Taba
bombings in which the First Victim had been charged (Case No. 40/2005).
27. The Complainants state that the Second Victim also retracted his
“confessions” before the court on 26 March 2006 when he informed the court
that he had been tortured during his detention. The Complainants say that
the court granted the Second Victim‟s request for a medical examination
which took place two months later, nine months after the second victim‟s
alleged torture. They state that the forensic medical report, dated 27 May
2006, noted “darker intersecting discolorations all over the back” as well as
an unhealed fracture in one of the toes of his left foot. The Complainants
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