![]() ![]() In two cases, children said security officials tied their arms behind their backs and suspended them by their arms, which dislocated their shoulders. Seven children said security officers tortured them with electricity including with stun guns.Ī boy arrested at age 16 told a relative he was worried he might “never marry or be able to have children” because of what Egyptian security officials had done to him in detention. ![]() In addition, another child was badly beaten by prison guards. “Egyptian authorities act as though they are above all laws when it comes to children in detention.”įifteen of the 20 children said they were tortured in pretrial detention, usually during interrogation while held incommunicado. “The harrowing accounts of these children and their families reveal how Egypt’s machinery of repression has subjected children to grave abuses,” said Aya Hijazi, co-director of Belady. ![]() Egypt’s allies, especially the United States as well as France and other European Union countries, should halt support to Egyptian security forces until Egypt takes measurable steps to end the abuses and hold accountable those responsible, the groups said.
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