Torture and disinformation in Egypt: HRW responds

1,657 views · Published 16 September 2017 · 1:37 · Indexed 27 October 2026

Channel: Human Rights Watch · 2017 · News & Politics

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After Human Rights Watch released a report on torture in Egypt titled “‘We Do Unreasonable Things Here’: Torture and National Security in al-Sisi’s Egypt," the government blocked HRW's website and went into propaganda overdrive. This video is a short response.

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Under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt’s regular police and National Security officers routinely torture political detainees with techniques including beatings, electric shocks, stress positions, and sometimes rape.

Read more: https://goo.gl/G4vQcy

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