Arabic on the banner reads, "remove our shackles." Cairo. 3 May 2016. Nariman El-Mofty/AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.After the coup of 2013, the practice of torture in Egypt has taken a qualitative shift to the worse.
The use of torture and violence by the police is nothing new to Egypt; to the contrary, Mubarak was regularly condemned by various international human rights organizations for the use of torture and violence against political opponents and regular citizens who were unlucky enough to be arrested for petty crimes.
However, after the coup of 2013 and the inauguration of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, this practice has taken new forms. There has been a proliferation of sexual violence against detainees including children, as well as an alarming increase in forced disappearances and torture.
