Egypt: Urgent Appeal - 7 More Cases of Enforced Disappearances Including a 16-Year-Old Child

press release

On 27 April 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the disappearances of seven Egyptian citizens, including a child under international and Egyptian law, abducted between 15 March and 1 April 2015 by the Homeland Security.

They were all arrested in retaliation for their alleged political affiliations to the Muslim Brotherhood, which puts them at high risk of torture during their secret detention in the Homeland Security facilities.

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