Silence In Egypt Over Police Abuses Amid "war On Terror"

Another was a 19-year-old under police guard in a hospital bed after suffering a gunshot wound. [...] they illustrate warnings by rights activists that the country's security forces, whose oppressiveness helped spark the 2011 uprising, again have a free hand to abuse now that they are waging what the government calls a "war on terror." At least 121 deaths have been reported in police stations since the beginning of 2014, many caused by deprivation of medical care or torture, Amnesty International said in a report released Wednesday that pointed to a "near total lack of accountability for abuses" by security forces. The interior minister, Mohammed Ibrahim, who is in charge of police, was removed Thursday in a Cabinet reshuffle, a move Egyptian media said was due to failures in the fight against militants and increasing abuses. The Associated Press examined the three Feb.

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