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“We Do Unreasonable Things Here” Torture and National Security in al-Sisi’s Egypt

2017 Human Rights Human Rights Watch Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Unknown

September 05, 2017 06:27 am

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Source: Human Rights Watch Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/09/05/we-do-unreasonable-things-here/torture-and-national-security-al-sisis-egypt Summary Since July 2013, when Egypt’s military overthrew the country’s first freely elected president, torture has returned as the calling card of the security services, and the lack of punishment for its routine practice...

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“We Are in Tombs” Abuses in Egypt’s Scorpion Prison

2016 Human Rights Human Rights Watch Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Unknown

September 28, 2016 05:54 am

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Source: Human Rights Watch Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://www.hrw.org/report/2016/09/28/we-are-tombs/abuses-egypts-scorpion-prison Summary: “It was designed so that those who go in don’t come out again unless dead. It was designed for political prisoners.” –Ibrahim Abd al-Ghaffar, former warden, during a television interview in 2012 Since July 2013, when Egypt’s military, led by...

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“Look for Another Homeland” Forced Evictions in Egypt’s Rafah

2015 Human Rights Human Rights Watch Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Sinai Unknown

September 22, 2015 05:53 am

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Source: Human Rights Watch Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://www.hrw.org/report/2015/09/22/look-another-homeland/forced-evictions-egypts-rafah SUMMARY “I myself used to make food and tea for the soldiers and they came and sat in the shade of our olive tree when the sun beat down on them … My mother told me: ‘The tree is your responsibility. I fed you from it

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