Located directly under the Ministry of Interior, Ahmed El Maati reports that he was secretly held in this state security branch for several weeks in July 2002.
He was brought to Lazogley in the back of the van, hidden lying flat covered in blankets and a spare tyre, after being released into SSI hands from the Mukhabarat al-Aama.
El Maati was kept in the hallway for his first two weeks where, along with many other prisoners, he was forced to spend his time in an upright in a sitting position, awake, with beatings applied to those who could not take the strain and leaned sideways.
There were interrogation rooms off the hallway, and he could hear other people being tortured and screaming.


