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(Ouvidoria). A non-governmental organization allegedly transferred the case to the
District Attorney’s Office - Central of Torture Complaints and reportedly informed the military
police about the incident.
2. Response of the Government of Brazil
30.
No response has yet been received from the Government of Brazil.
C. Egypt
1. Allegation transmitted on 4 February 2003
31.
The Special Rapporteur has received information indicating that the 41-part series
Horseman without a Horse, which has been aired on State television in Egypt as well as other
privately owned channels, allegedly contains consistent expressions of anti-Semitism and
discriminatory stereotypes, which may encourage animosity and violence against Jews. It is
alleged that the series is set in the 1930s and follows the story of an Egyptian journalist who
exposes the existence of a secret copy of the so-called Protocols of the Elders of Zion in the
hands of the Jewish community of Cairo. It is reported that the series itself visually depicts a
group of Jews gathering in a darkened enclosure labelled the “Headquarters of the Conspiracy”
and that its depiction of Jews is based on stereotypes.
32.
Furthermore it is alleged that, with the broadcast of the series, articles, speeches
and other expressions of anti-Semitism are emerging. It is reported, for example, that
on 19 November 2002 Sheikh Tantawi, head of Al-Azhar University Institute, published an
article in the official Islamic weekly, Aqidati, allegedly insisting that the Protocols are authentic.
In an interview he allegedly affirmed the existence of a conspiracy of the elders to hurt the
nations of the world, while advancing Jewish interests at the expense of others.
33.
It is further reported that the series was produced in Cairo by Dream TV for special
broadcasting during the holy month of Ramadan and that it passed official censorship in Egypt.
2. Response of the Government of Egypt
34.
No reply has yet been received from the Government of Egypt.
D. Greece
1. Joint allegation transmitted on 11 July 2003 with the Special
Rapporteurs on the question of torture and on violence
against women, its causes and consequences
35.
The Special Rapporteurs have received information on Yannoula Tsakiri, a 21-year-old
woman from Nea Zoi, a Romani settlement in Aspropyrgos, approximately 15 km west of
Athens, who was reportedly assaulted by police officers, on the morning of 8 January 2002,
when police allegedly raided the settlement. According to the information received, a large
group of police officers approached the settlement with their weapons drawn. The police were
accompanied by a judicial official, but allegedly did not produce any arrest or search warrants.
It is alleged that they ordered all the Roma out of their shanty-homes, and forced those already