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World Report 2. 01. Egypt Human Rights Watch. Public criticism of the government remained effectively banned in Egypt in 2. Police arrested scores of people in connection with protests, many preemptively. Authorities ordered travel bans and asset freezes against prominent human rights organizations and their directors and brought criminal charges against the head of the Press Syndicate and the country’s top anti- corruption official. Parliament proposed a new law regulating nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that would effectively end independent human rights work in the country.

Members of the security forces, particularly the Interior Ministry’s National Security Agency, continued to routinely torture detainees and forcibly disappeared hundreds of people with little or no accountability for violations of the law. The disappearance, torture, and death of Italian doctoral researcher Giulio Regeni, probably at the hands of security services, highlighted these abuses and caused a diplomatic rift between Egypt and Italy. Investigations by National Security officers, often without any hard evidence, formed the basis of many of the 7,4.

President Abdel Fattah al- Sisi issued a decree widening the scope of military jurisdiction in 2. Conditions in detention remained harsh. Watch The Hippopotamus Online.

The quasi- official National Council for Human Rights continued to report that prisons and other detention facilities were severely overcrowded. Conditions were particularly harsh in Cairo’s Scorpion Prison, where inmates, most of them political prisoners, suffered abuses at the hands of Interior Ministry officers, including beatings, force feedings, deprivation of contact with relatives and lawyers, and interference in medical care that may have contributed to at least six deaths in 2. Authorities at a maximum security prison in Cairo that holds many political prisoners routinely abuse inmates in ways that may have contributed to some of their deaths. Staff at Scorpion Prison beat inmates severely, isolate them in cramped “discipline” cells, cut off access to families and lawyers, and interfere with medical treatment, according to the 8. We Are in Tombs’: Abuses in Egypt’s Scorpion Prison.” The report documents cruel and inhuman treatment by officers of Egypt’s Interior Ministry that probably amounts to torture in some cases and violates basic international norms for the treatment of prisoners.

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Security Force Abuses. Officers of the National Security Agency routinely tortured and forcibly disappeared suspects with few consequences.

Many of the detainees who suffered these abuses were accused of sympathy with or membership in the Muslim Brotherhood, which the government named a terrorist group in 2. Between August 2. August 2. 01. 6, the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms, an independent group, documented 9. National Security officers routinely tortured suspects during these enforced disappearances. Between January and October 2. Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture based on media reports, lawyers’ statements, criminal complaints, and other sources.

In one case documented by Human Rights Watch, National Security officers in Alexandria forcibly disappeared and tortured 2. Incidents of abuse by police officers, including fatal incidents of torture and illegal killings at protests, rarely resulted in accountability. Of the hundreds of such cases recorded in media reports and by activist groups since July 2. Former President Mohamed Morsy, only 1. October 2. 01. 6, resulting in six guilty verdicts against police officers. Many convicted officers have appealed initial verdicts and won acquittals or shorter sentences.

In February, Egypt’s highest appeals court ordered a retrial for an officer originally sentenced to 1. Shaimaa al- Sabbagh at a peaceful protest in January 2. In October, the same court ordered a retrial for two officers who received five- year sentences for torturing lawyer Karim Hamdy to death in a police station in 2.

Freedom of Assembly. A 2. 01. 3 decree that effectively banned all anti- government protests remained in place, though it was subject to an ongoing legal challenge before the Supreme Constitutional Court.

Police made large, pre- emptive raids and arrests on two occasions when they anticipated protests. Beginning in December 2. January anniversary of the 2. In the days ahead of the anniversary, police raided numerous downtown Cairo apartments, searched them without warrants, and arrested some activists, including Taher Mokhtar, a doctor who had advocated for better detention conditions.

A court in August ordered Mokhtar released on bail pending investigation. One official at the National Security Agency told Reuters on January 2. We have taken several measures to ensure activists don't have breathing space and are unable to gather, and several cafés and other meeting places have been closed, while some have been arrested in order to scare the rest.”After a rare mass demonstration on April 1. President al- Sisi’s decision to cede two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, activists planned a follow- up protest for April 2. Police arrested at least 3. Cairo cafés. Police stopped people riding public transportation or walking in the street, inspected mobile phones without warrants, and arrested phone owners if they found anti- government images. Prominent human rights lawyer Malek Adly, arrested in May after filing a legal challenge against al- Sisi’s decision to cede the islands, was released without bail in late August but still faced charges of spreading false rumors, inciting protests, and attempting to overthrow the government.

Freedom of Association. Parliament and authorities took unprecedented steps to restrict independent human rights work by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), threatening their very existence. In September, a Cairo criminal court approved a request from a panel of investigative judges to freeze the assets of three organizations and the personal assets of five people who founded or led prominent human rights groups. The investigative judges had previously banned at least 1.

NGO directors, founders, and staff members from travelling outside Egypt. Activists said the travel bans were probably a prelude to the filing of criminal charges against them for illegally receiving foreign funding. Under penal code article 7. President al- Sisi in 2.

NGO workers can receive a 2. In November, parliament swiftly approved a new law regulating NGOs after no public debate or input from civil society. The law would effectively eliminate independent human rights work, placing all NGOs under the effective veto power of a council dominated by representatives of the General Intelligence Service and Interior and Defense Ministries and allowing the council to dissolve NGOs based on broadly worded infractions. It would punish anyone violating the law with a prison term of one to five years and a fine of 5.

Egyptian pounds (US$3,1. In late November, the law still awaited legal advice of the State Council and approval from President al- Sisi. In February, local government authorities and security officers ordered the closure of the Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture for allegedly violating the terms of its license, but the center remained open pending negotiations with the Health Ministry. In June, an investigative judge interrogated human rights lawyer Negad al- Borai, who had been involved in drafting an anti- torture law, on charges that he received illegal funding, established an unlicensed entity, and spread false information. Al- Borai has been interrogated on these charges six times. Freedom of Expression.

On May 2. 9, prosecutors summoned the head of the Press Syndicate and two senior board members for questioning.