Egypt Detains 4 People Per Day to Wipe out Dissent: Amnesty International

The report entitled “Egypt: Officially you do not exist” states that people are being detained without access to family or a lawyer, and held incommunicado without formal charges or a trial. They call it "enforced disappearances," and in the first five months of 2016 alone, a suspected 630 of these have already been documented.
 
Singling out Magdy Abd al-Ghaffar, the report says since his position at the head of the Interior Ministry, there has been a “visible spike” in the numbers of enforced disappearances.
 
Magdy Abd al-Ghaffar became interior minister in March 2015 after previous stints in the State Security Investigations and the now-disbanded agency that was known for its systematic use of torture under deposed president Hosni Mubarak.
 
In one of the 17 cases documented by the report, 14-year-old Mazen Mohammed Abdallah was forcibly disappeared from his family home in Cairo in September 2015.
 
He told researchers that he was repeatedly raped with wooden sticks by interrogators eager to extract a false confession.
 
Abdallah is one of five children disappeared for up to 50 days whose testimonies are included in the report.
 
In another case highlighted by Amnesty, 14-year-old Aser Mohamed was arrested in an early-morning raid on his Cairo home on 6 June. Officers said they wanted to take Aser for questioning and promised to return him within a few hours, but failed to do so. His family did not have any information about him for the next 34 days, during which time they "made frantic efforts to locate him," according to the report.
 
The 71-page report describes harrowing accounts of torture carried out by state agents. Some victims say they have been subjected to electrocution, blindfolding, beating, suspension by their arms and legs, and sexual abuse including rape