Egypt’s allies should halt support to Egyptian security forces until Egypt takes measurable steps to end the abuses and hold accountable those responsible, say human rights groups.
The Egyptian authorities have executed nine men who had been convicted after an unfair trial for the killing of the former public prosecutor in an attack in Cairo in June 2015.
‘Death commissions’ in 32 cities sent at least 5,000 prisoners to their deaths in mass purge of dissidents. Amnesty has named Iran’s current minister of justice one of those involved.