CAT/C/48/D/391/2009 of his social background would get high military ranks, whereas he had to clean toilets for 14 months and sleep in a locked solitary prison cell every night. While the first complainant was doing his compulsory military service, his parents fled to Saudi Arabia. 2.5 After the military service, the first complainant married and settled down in El-Arish near Sinai. In 1984, two months after his first child was born, he was interrogated and tortured again. 2.6 In January 1987, the first complainant drove a hitchhiker to the border with Israel and he was arrested by the police shortly thereafter. He was told by the police officers that they were aware of his opposition to the Government. On this occasion, the first complainant was detained for four months without any formal charges being brought against him. While in detention, he was tortured and interrogated about Khalid Islambouli and the Muslim Brotherhood. 2.7 The first complainant submits that, in total, he was arrested and tortured six times before he fled to Saudi Arabia in 1987. When the police in Egypt realized that he had escaped to Saudi Arabia, his wife was interrogated and their house was destroyed. The first complainant had arranged for his wife and children to join him in Saudi Arabia 15 months later. Meanwhile, his parents returned to Egypt, as they were old and did not want to die abroad. The first complainant submits that his father was arrested and interrogated. He does not know exactly what happened to his father but he had “ended up in hospital badly injured”. The first complainant does not exclude that his father had been tortured. 2.8 The first complainant, his wife and their children stayed in Saudi Arabia until 1997. While working in Saudi Arabia, the first complainant reportedly started an organization to defend the rights of migrant workers, which apparently resulted in him having problems with the Saudi Arabian authorities. This was one of the reasons why his contract in Saudi Arabia was not renewed and the family was expelled. The first complainant was forced to leave the country in 1997. He first moved to the United Arab Emirates and later, in June of 1999, to Oman, where he lived with the family until 2007. While working in Oman, the first complainant created a website with information about “prominent people” in the country. When the website was published, he was arrested by the Sultan’s security police, who confiscated computers and documents, and banned the website. The first complainant was threatened and allegedly told by the security police that the only “prominent person” in the country was the Sultan. The police kept him under surveillance and his work contract was not renewed, which implied expulsion. He was summoned to a police interview, became very afraid and fled Oman with his family instead of appearing. Case of N.M.A.M.A. (the second complainant) 2.9 The first child of the family, N.M.A.M.A., was born in Cairo and came to Saudi Arabia with her mother in 1988. Over the years, she attended school in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Oman. The second complainant returned to Egypt in 2002 to start university, as she was unable to attend a university in Oman. She studied at the university until the summer of 2006. During her studies, the second complainant travelled several times between Egypt and Oman; every time she entered Egypt, she was taken for questioning to a special interview room. She was questioned about her father, the reasons why he had left Saudi Arabia and his contacts in Egypt. The interrogators have consistently treated her in a degrading manner, used sexually offensive and humiliating expressions against her and her family. They made her fear for her life and safety. On three occasions, she was summoned for questioning by the security police. The third time, in spring of 2006, when the second complainant was again questioned about her father by a member of the security police, the police officer took her identity document, locked the door and then grabbed her breasts and genitals and made obscene movements towards and against her body. She was terrified and tried not to annoy him. The harassment continued for at least an hour. Then he sent her out 4