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2010 State Department Human Rights Report on Egypt - by Stephen Lendman
In her book, "Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law," Marjorie Cohn quoted a former CIA agent saying:
"If you want a serious interrogation, you send a prisoner to Jordan. If you want them tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear....you send them to Egypt."
In fact, Egypt under Mubarak and current military leadership is proficient in all of the above. These practices go on daily but unmentioned in US media reports, claiming September elections promise democracy, when, in fact, everything changed but stayed the same.
Each year, the State Department publishes human rights reports on over 190 countries. Its complete one on Egypt can be accessed through the following link:
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/160456.pdf
It bears repeating that practices under Mubarak continue, including harsh crackdowns, mass arrests and torture of protesters and others challenging regime authority. Emerging democracy in Egypt is nowhere in sight - never, in fact, as long as its military has dominant power, with or without the facade of elected civilians.
That said, the State Department's report covered disturbing human rights violations, explaining them by category.
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