Human Rights Watch: Egyptian Government Must Address Torture Epidemic

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Press release from Human Rights Watch
Dateline New York, Thursday February 26

Egypt: Government Must Address Torture Epidemic

Egypt’s security forces and police routinely torture and abuse detainees, particularly during interrogation, and the government’s failure to address the problem has created an atmosphere of impunity, Human Rights Watch said in a new briefing paper released today.
The 9-page briefing paper, “Egypt’s Torture Epidemic,” provides an overview of the country’s torture problem and documents the government’s failure to investigate credible allegations of torture and ill-treatment. An appendix details 17 cases of death in detention in 2002 and 2003 in which torture is known or suspected to be the cause of death.

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Read the report named above, Egypt's Torture Epidemic.

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1. Mubarak gets billions of of dollars in US aid annually...

as he tortures and brutalizes people, squelching dissent and democracy.

Remind me again how Bush's Middle East policy is supporting democracy?

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2. Bush doesn't support democracy

He uses the word only in an Orwellian sense.