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February 13th, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A group of human rights organizations in Egypt has accused the interior ministry of using “systematic torture” against political detainees.
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said tens of protesters were killed by interior ministry forces while many anti-government protesters arrested during the third anniversary of the 2011 revolution were subjected to systematic torture and sexual assault.
The Cairo-based body said in a joint statement on Wednesday that torturing the detainees is not an arbitrary practice but a planned one.
The Egypt Freedom Party, the Bread and Freedom Party, the Egyptian Popular Current, the Socialist Popular Alliance Party (SPA), the Egyptian Social Democratic Party and the Constitution Party signed the statement.
“No one should be detained unless they are charged by judiciary order,” the statement said.
It also added that the “savageness” of torture incidents reported by those arrested has surpassed those under the “worst dictatorial regimes.”
The group urged Egypt’s prosecutor general to launch an “immediate and independent” probe into alleged systematic torture of political detainees by the ministry and called for subjecting all those detained on January 25 to medical examinations.
The statement also demanded permission to visit detention facilities to interview detainees.
According to ANHRI, Egypt’s national human rights council has already been informed of the violations of prisoners’ rights. The group also accused Egypt’s Interior Ministry of refusing to arrest officers allegedly involved in the killing of protesters.
Egypt has been experiencing unrelenting violence since the first democratically-elected president, Mohamed Morsi, was ousted on July 3, 2013.
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