Its annual report notes a string of enforced disappearances by the police and abuse of prisoners.

The National Council for Human Rights, which is the country’s official rights watchdog, says the human rights situation in Egypt hasn’t  changed in spite of the adoption of the new constitution two years ago.

The council’s raised 266 cases of enforced disappearances with the interior ministry, of whom 27 were since revealed to have been released while 143 remained in pretrial detention.

The ministry responds that 44 of the missing people have not been arrested, and may have disappeared for other reasons, including to join jihadist groups.

The cases were documented between April 2015 and the end of March this year.

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