Hundreds of Egyptians suffered enforced disappearances for periods of varying duration and torture of the National Security Agency (NSA) of Egypt as part of a persecution of the opposition, denounced the human rights organization Amnesty International (AI).
Among the missing were two adolescents of 14 years. The mother of one of them told AI that her son had been electrocuted and raped with a wooden stick during interrogation.
In the report released today, Amnesty International says that since early 2015, “at least several hundred “of Egyptians disappeared for a minimum of 48 hours and in some cases for several months before it was clear that they were in custody.
human rights groups reported an” average of three to four persons subject to forced every day since early 2015 disappearances “, Amnesty said.
the disappearances were used to” allow the NSA torture detainees with impunity “and” intimidate government critics and discourage … dissent, “says the report.
most of the victims were supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, but there were also secular activists and detained apparently simply because of their family connections people.
the organization said it was not possible to give a precise number of disappearances by official secrecy and fear of relatives to speak put at greater risk for victims.
AI says that Egyptian prosecutors are accomplices because they fail to investigate abuses and because they base their charges on confessions extracted under torture.
“the report contains harsh criticism of the public prosecutor of Egypt, which has been complicit in these violations and betrayed cruelly its obligation under Egyptian law to protect people from forced disappearances, arbitrary arrests, torture and other ill-treatment, “Philip Luther, program director for the Middle East and north Africa at Amnesty.
European governments and the US “have blindly given safety equipment and police to Egypt,” the report said, “and have avoided criticizing the deteriorating situation of human rights in Egypt.”
the Egyptian Interior Ministry, which is responsible for the NSA, has reiterated that does not stop anyone outside the law. However, in January, in response to complaints from families compiled by the National Human Rights Council appointed by the Government acknowledged the arrest of more than 100 people whose relatives said they had been missing, but said they had been deprived of their freedom legally.
the Egyptian authorities have been persecuting dissidents since President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi, then head of the armed forces overthrew Mursi in 2013 amid protests against leader Islamic.
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