Egyptian Chronicles: Egyptian Chronicles' person of the year

Last year I made a poll after the year 2005 was ended asking you to choose "The person of the year in Egypt"

Well this year "2006" is going to end just after few hours , yet I won't make a poll and I ask you to choose among the most famous names in that year may be because I can't see really a big difference in the names that are in the Egyptian scene now in 2006 and then in 2005

really no big difference "The results of 2005 by the way"

And thus there will be no poll for this year

But there is one man I wanted to choose as Egyptian Chronicles' person of the year 2006

and I wonder if you agree with me or not

I choose "Emad El-Kabeer"

Who is "Emad El-Kabeer"?

Emad is the 21 years bus driver from the poor class from the populated area of Boulaq El-Dakoor aka People's Republic of China

Emad is a simple average Egyptian Joe who did nothing wrong except being in the wrong place in the wrong time to be caught for no reason to be tortured ,humiliated and sexually abused by the Boulaq El-Dakoor police station agents ,not that only but it was video recorded by one of the officers' mobile phone and distributed the video clip on CDS all over the Boulaq El-Dakoor bus station where Emad works in order to make all the people there fear and respect them !! Also not to forget to humiliate him

The video reached its way to the Internet and from the Internet to the newspaper El-Fagr ,despite I don't like it nor its chief in editor or owner but the one must respect the courage of the newspaper and the journalist "Wael Abdul Fatah" to publish the case and the shocking content of the CD ,since then Egypt was wondering who was that young man facing all that torture ,ironically at first I read that they claimed that he was a pedophile !! I swear it was there somewhere ,yet after some time the Journalist and the human rights activists in Egypt managed to identify the young man

Poor Emad El-Kabeer who lost his father after knowing what happened to his son

The good thing that made me choose Emad that he didn't scare despite the threats to go in public and tell what happened , not that only even before the human rights activists and Wael Abdul Fatah reached out to him , he went by himself to the house of the interior minister to complain ,of course they built for him castles in wind yet nothing happened ,this was in the beginning of the year

Only from 2 months we began to read about the incident and Emad

The good thing and great victory to Emad ,in fact no only Emad but for us that the public prosecutor in South Cairo decided to investigate the case last month

officer "Islam Nabih" who is appears in the video and tortured Emad was detained and from four days only on the 28th of December the South Cairo Prosecutor made a historical order , "Nabih" along with another police officer and a corporal to be tried in the Cairo Criminal court, the next day followed ,that was on 29th of December the date of the trial was announced ,it would be on the next 9th of January 2007 insh Allah

I chose Emad because as I said he was brave enough to go in public and speak about what he saw on that bloody night in Boulak El-Dakoor Police Station

He spoke on TV without fear about happened to him,not looking for fame or money but for revenge ,for lost right

Emad for me is the symbol of all those Egyptians suffer from the inhuman treatment in the police stations from the police officers ,I can't see they are minority and even if they are minority don't see that the bad things cover the good things , I am afraid now police officers in Egypt got bad reputation not because they work for the regime and all that political jazz but because of their violence ,

Now if a police officer wants to marry a girl from any respected family , a big chance will be rejected ,because the girls of good families are not games in the hand of anyone as my grand mother always saying , at this is what happens in my class ,in my surrounding,in my family and my friends' family

The year 2006 proved to be black for the police,scandals mostly related to the torture and police brutality , and unfortunately it transferred from the national level to the international level with all the scandal of secret prisons and C.I.A outsourcing ,and torture of Pakistanis and other from different nationalities began to exposed here and there it was enough to know that Jake Gyllenhaal next movie will be about the torture in the secret prisons in Egypt !!

Returning to Emad ,Emad saw lots of pressure and threats from the Police ,yet he spoke not only for him but for all those who suffered the brutality of psycho Police officers

I also would to like to hint to an important "Fatwa"issued last year from the Egyptian El-Ifta "The highest Sunni entity for legalization and recommendation in Egypt" saying that the police officers who engage in torture what ever they did from Islamic practices from praying ,Zaqat ,feast and pilgrim are not accepted

Anyhow I choose Emad El-Kabeer as the Egyptian Chronicles' person of the year 2006

What do you think ?? who is your choice for the person of the year 2006 in Egypt ?? I said in Egypt as there are lots persons of the year in 2006 world wide ;)