Egypt Arrests Dissidents Families Under Allies Noses | Opinion Amr Magdi
, Middle East and North Africa researcher, Human Rights Watch On 3/3/21 at 7:30 AM EST
In November 2019, Hasiba Mahsoob, a 50-year-old Egyptian businesswoman, was arrested in public by security forces in Alexandria, Egypt. They took her to an undisclosed location, probably one of the National Security Agency s illegal detention sites, where they routinely disappear dissidents.
Her whereabouts weren t revealed until 67 days later, on January 27, 2020, when her captors finally took her before a prosecutor. Prosecutors, as usual, did not investigate her forced disappearance and ordered her detained pending investigation, rubber-stamping unsupported security allegations that she was a member of an unnamed terrorist group.
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