Some of the content of the documents is salacious and sinister, according to a report by Hannah Allam and Mohannas Sabry of McClatchy Newspapers.
There are several files that back State Security officers' reputation for
torture. In one letter stamped "top secret" in 2008 and made available on
Facebook, a senior official wrote that detainees suffered "injuries" while in
State Security custody. He complained that questioning had to be delayed until the wounds had healed.
Another file, they report, is a tape purportedly involving a Kuwaiti princess and a prominent Egyptian businessman. Another paints Egypt's highest-ranking cleric as a womanizer.
The two reporters said that a woman named Israa Abdel Fattah, 32, a labor organizer and blogger, shared her file with McClatchy and "marveled at the thoroughness of the surveillance." The file included detailed transcripts of e-mails sent from her Gmail account and phone conversations with her ex-husband. The feeling of violation was indescribable, she said.
"I knew they were watching me, but I never imagined they knew all this
information about me," she said. "My friends tried to take me out to dinner that night. They tried to make me laugh, but I couldn't. I told them I should be alone, so I took my papers and went home."
Amnesty International offers this first-hand chilling account of the carnage and chaos inside one State Security building.
Protesters stormed the State Security headquarters in Nasr City during a demonstration calling for the dismantling of the apparatus, where they collected thousands of classified materials. Documents found included full transcripts of phone calls made by opposition leaders and journalists; details of hacked email accounts and clandestine surveillance efforts; and accounts from inside opposition party meetings, including names of State Security officers planted within them.
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