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January 27, 2016

Egypt: Hundreds Subjected to "Enforced Disappearances"
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In Egypt, human rights activists say hundreds of people have been
subjected to "enforced disappearances," as president and former military
general Abdel Fattah el-Sisi widens his crackdown. Hundreds of people
have been reportedly held for months without charges or access to a
lawyer in secret prisons run by Sisi's security forces. Many say they
have been tortured. Some have died in the secret prisons and their
bodies later surfaced in morgues. National Council on Human Rights
lawyer Nasser Amin said, "This is an unprecedented catastrophe for human
rights and freedoms in Egypt."


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