Hundreds forcibly disappeared in Egypt crackdown, says Amnesty

A new report by Amnesty International says Egypt's security services have forcibly caused  hundreds of people to disappear and some  tortured in the past year while expressing dissenting views. 

Students, political activists and protesters- some as young as 14- have vanished without a trace.  

Many are also alleged to have been held for months and often kept blindfolded and handcuffed for the entire period. 

Egypt's government has denied it uses enforced disappearances and torture. 

Interior Minister Magdy Abdul Ghaffar has insisted the security services operate within a framework established by Egyptian law. 

More than one thousand people have been killed and 40,000 are believed to have been jailed since President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi led the military to overthrow Mohammed Morsi.


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