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Crushing Dissent in Egypt

22/02/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - Assignment, Crushing Dissent in Egypt

Prison, torture and abduction are abuses at the heart of the Sisi regime say campaigners

Prison, torture and abduction are abuses at the heart of the Sisi regime say campaigners.

A well-known blogger and activist jailed for a peaceful protest, a young man imprisoned and tortured for wearing the wrong T- shirt, a young woman abducted by masked police, and now among more than a thousand people who have been forcibly disappeared – these are just some of the alarming stories from the new Egypt. 

Orla Guerin has spent the last four years reporting from Cairo where she has witnessed a systematic assault on freedoms and human rights. The country's ruler, former army chief, President Abdel Fatah al Sisi is standing for re-election (next month) in a climate of fear and intimidation.  Seven years after the euphoria in Tahrir Square, Orla asks what happened to the hope born during the revolution, and reports on the abuses which campaigners say are at the heart of the Sisi regime.

(Photo: Egyptian military personnel. Credit: AFP)

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