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Torture, Incommunicado Detention, Flawed Due Process

A photo published by a pro-army militia Facebook page, Uswod Al-karama, (which was later deleted) showing a group of women and children, whom the group described as the wives and children of men of the Islamic State affiliate, being arrested by the Egyptian army near al-Moqat’a area south of Sheikh Zuwayed in North Sinai, Egypt.
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