Egypt: Mass Arrests and Torture in Sinai

I. Summary

II. Recommendations

To the Government of Egypt

To the People’s Assembly and the Shura Council

To the international donor community

III. Introduction

Al-`Arish and Northern Sinai

Government investigations

Mass Arrests

Reports of Egyptian Human Rights Groups 13

Methodology

IV. Arbitrary Arrests and Detentions

Patterns of arrests and detentions

Cases of arbitrary arrest and detention

Arbitrary detention under international and Egyptian law

IV. Torture and Ill-treatment

Cases of Torture and Ill-Treatment

Torture under International and Egyptian Law

VI. Response of the Government of Egypt

Acknowledgments

Appendix: Human Rights Watch letter to Minister of Interior Habib al-`Adli

February 2005   Vol. 17, No. 3(E)