In presenting his report entitled “Officially, do not exist”, Amnesty International reported Tuesday an increase “unprecedented” enforced in Egypt and tortured by the National Security Agency (NSA) under disappearances “brutal repression” in the Arab country.
the document is a tendency for the Egyptian authorities to carry out kidnappings, torture and disappearances against students, political activists and protesters reveals, ” in an attempt to intimidate opponents and kill peaceful dissent “.
the organization argues that since the appointment of Magdi Abdelgafar as Interior Minister in March 2015, an average of three to four people are subjected to forced daily disappearances and it is estimated that many of them are held in the offices of the National Security Agency (NSA).
the report presents detailed cases of 17 people subjected to enforced disappearance, which were held incommunicado for periods of several days and seven months, isolated from the outside world and without access to lawyers, relatives or any independent judicial supervision.
most of the victims were supporters of ousted president Islamist Mohamed Morsi, but there were also secular activists and detained apparently simply because of their family connections people.
Amnesty International questioned the role of the Egyptian prosecutor’s office, which has accepted evidence obtained under duress and torture, by which he urged the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, to end these practices.
it also urged the European Union to impose an embargo on exports and deny permits to those who want to sell arms Egypt and demanded to Brussels and the United States to use their influence to pressure the country to end this situation.
(with information from Notimex)
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