Egypt’s Response to Torture: Punish the Victims

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Police officers stationed outside Tora prison on the southern outskirts of the Egyptian capital Cairo on February 11, 2020 © 2020 KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images Egypt’s government has reached a new low around torture. After the Guardian reported on two leaked videos last January showing detainees in a Cairo police station with wounds that appeared to be the result of torture, Egyptian authorities failed to carry out a credible investigation into the abuse. Instead, Egypt’s Supreme State Security top prosecutor, Khaled Diaa, referred most of the detainees who…

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