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Tuesday, 19 September 2017
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  • Torture and disinformation in Egypt: HRW responds

    Feature
    Duration : 1m 36s
    After Human Rights Watch released a report on torture in Egypt titled “‘We Do Unreasonable Things Here’: Torture and National Security in al-Sisi’s Egypt,' the government blocked HRW's website and went into propaganda overdrive. This video is a short response.
    More about the report:Under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt’s regular police and National Security officers routinely torture political detainees with techniques including beatings, electric shocks, stress positions, and sometimes rape. Read more: https://goo.gl/G4vQcy