Mulhaq Mazra

Part of the Tora Prison Complex, Ahmed Agiza and Muhammed al-Zari report that they were regularly subjected to electric shocks and other torture in Mulhaq Mazra.

After being held secretly for over two years, Swedish authorities were finally allowed to visit Agiza and al-Zari in February 2004. Agiza’s mother was also able to see her son, albeit with Egyptian security supervision.

Agiza’s mother states that it was clear that her son had been tortured; he had been unable to even pick up his arms to hug her, and that he was very slow and very tired and weak. 

Al-Zari’s lawyer said that he had been electrocuted with wires attached to the most sensitive parts of the body: “They fasten electrodes to the most sensitive parts of the body. That is, genitals, breast nipples, tongue, ear lobes, underarms.”

Mohammed Zarai, former director of the Cairo-based Human Rights Centre for the Assistance of Prisoners, confirms that Agiza was repeatedly electrocuted, hung upside down, whipped with an electrical flex and hospitalised after being made to lick his cell floor clean.