From Ahram Online: Human rights in post-Mubarak Egypt: the jury is still out

When the battered face of a corpse of a 28-year-old man becomes one of the most famous images associated with the Egyptian revolution, it says a lot about the human rights situation in the country during the Mubarak era.

The man, Khaled Said, was beaten to death by police in the summer of 2010 in Alexandria. His murder opened the lid on decades of abuses directed by Mubarak and his men against political activists and ordinary Egyptians. Many also believe that Khaled’s brutal end was one of the main triggers of the Egyptian revolution.

By the end of Mubarak’s rule, the use of torture in Egypt had become a practiced art. Europe and the United States even sent their own prisoners to be serviced in Egyptian prisons under programs of extraordinary rendition.

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