US: Egypt’s Ex-Prime Minister Sued for Alleged Torture

Click to expand Image Human rights activist Mohamed Soltan, an American citizen now living in Virginia, is suing former Egyptian prime minister Hazem el-Bablawi.  © Private (Beirut) – An American citizen who spent nearly two years in an Egyptian prison filed a civil suit on June 1, 2020 against former Egyptian Prime Minister Hazem al-Beblawy in a United States court, Human Rights Watch said today. The plaintiff, Mohamed Soltan, alleges that al-Beblawy – who now lives in the US and is an executive director at the International Monetary Fund – is responsible for his attempted extrajudicial…

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