Philip Luther Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/philip-luther/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 12 Jul 2016 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Philip Luther Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/philip-luther/ 32 32 Amnesty International report spike in enforces disappearance in Egypt https://jjcornish.com/2016/07/amnesty-international-report-spike-enforces-disappearance-egypt/ Tue, 12 Jul 2016 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2016/07/amnesty-international-report-spike-enforces-disappearance-egypt/ Amnesty International says there’s  an unprecedented spike in enforced disappearances since early 2015 aimed at quashing dissent. It says enforced disappearance has become a key instrument of state policy in Egypt. Anyone who dares to speak out is at risk. ends intro Amnesty International’s  Middle East and North Africa director Philip Luther says human rights […]

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]]> Amnesty International says there’s  an unprecedented spike in enforced disappearances since early 2015 aimed at quashing dissent.

It says enforced disappearance has become a key instrument of state policy in Egypt. Anyone who dares to speak out is at risk.

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Amnesty International’s  Middle East and North Africa director Philip Luther says

human rights abuses have surged since the military overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Moursi in 2013 and unleashed a crackdown on Islamist and secular dissidents.

Children were among those being kept at undisclosed locations for up to several months at a time to intimidate opponents and wipe out peaceful dissent.

Amnesty’s report documents 17 cases, including five children, who’ve disappeared for periods of between several days to seven months.

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