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Egypt torture centre.
April 12, 2007 - 05:24 PM
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Egypt torture centre, report says, Human rights group Amnesty International has released a highly critical report on Egypt's record on torture and illegal detention.
Egypt has become an international centre for interrogation and torture on behalf of other states as part of the "war on terror".
We are now uncovering evidence of Egypt being a destination of choice for third-party or contracted out torture in the 'war on terror' Under such deals governments, including the UK's, deport suspects to Cairo having been assured by Egyptian authorities that the suspect will not suffer torture. In 2005, Egypt's prime minister acknowledged that since 2001 the USA had transferred some 60-70 detainees to Egypt as part of the "war on terror".
The report details the case of Abu Omar, an Egyptian resident in Italy who was allegedly kidnapped by CIA agents in Italy in 2003 and handed over to the Egyptian authorities.
Abu Omar was held without charge in Egyptian jails for nearly four years and in testimony given to an Italian prosecutor he has alleged that he was whipped, subjected to electric shocks and raped.
He was never successfully charged and was released in February 2007.
AI also highlights the case of Mamdouh Habib, an Australian national of Egyptian descent.
He alleges that he was detained and tortured in Pakistan in 2001, handed over to US officials and then flown on to Egypt.
It calls on the government to publicly condemn torture and other ill-treatment, and ensure that all allegations of such abuses are promptly and independently investigated and the perpetrators tried.
It also urges Cairo to end incommunicado and administrative detention, and to make public the names of all alleged terrorist suspects who have been transferred to Egypt from the custody of other countries.
 
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