“Human
Rights Watch (HRW) says dozens of Egyptians have disappeared after
being 'secretly' detained by the country’s security forces. On
Monday, the rights group said dozens of cases of enforced
disappearances had been documented from 2013 through 2015.”
“The
HRW said three of the cases it documented involved individuals who
had been found dead after being arrested and taken to an unknown
location. On June 4, Seyed al-Rassed, 46, was arrested in Qalyubia
Province by plainclothes police officers and a Central Security
Forces officer. Days later, his family was notified that his body,
which bore torture marks, was at a mortuary.”
“The
HRW added that the independent civil society organization Freedom for
the Brave said in a report on June 7 that it had documented 164 cases
of enforced disappearances since April 2015. The organization says 66
people are still missing. It later reported an additional 39 cases to
the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), saying most of
them took place in April and May.”
“The
Egyptian Interior Ministry has refused to comment on the issue of
enforced disappearances.”
“More
than 40,000 people have been detained in Egypt since the ouster of
Mohamed Morsi, the former Egyptian president, which came after a
military coup in July 2013. Following the coup led by Sisi, the then
head of the armed forces and current president, the Egyptian
military-backed government launched a crackdown on supporters of
Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood.”
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