Egypt blocks Human Rights Watch website amid widespread media blockade
CAIRO – Egypt has blocked the website of Human Rights Watch just one day after the organization released a report on systematic torture in the country's jails.
Egyptian authorities keep insisting that any incidents of torture are isolated crimes by bad officers acting alone, but the Human Rights Watch report proves otherwise," Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, said on Thursday.
The report titled "We Do Unreasonable Things Here", based on the accounts of 19 former detainees and the family of another, claimed Egyptian authorities used arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, and torture.
