Egypt’s Black Site Torture Camps

Student protesters opposing Egypt’s military rulers have been disappearing—and those who escape say they’ve been held in secret prisons and severely tortured for their activism.

In interrogation rooms shielded from the public by black site prisons, hundreds of Egyptians opposed to the military regime are being tortured as they are secretly detained without their families or lawyers knowing their whereabouts, according to human-rights activists.

Rooted in Egypt’s role in the American extraordinary rendition program, head of the Egyptian commission for Rights and Freedoms, Mohamed Lotfy, says this practice of forced disappearance has become increasingly common for political opposition since the July 3 coup. Set to release a report later this month on those disappeared into detention centers, Lotfy contends that security forces have cast a wide net for detainees ranging from civilians caught up in the crossfire of Sinai’s insurgency and protest leaders to suspected militants.

When “Ibrahim” went to take a university exam in January, he wasn’t thinking it would be the last time anyone would hear from him for more than two months. But instead of completing his semester, the student leader of protests against the army’s return to power, orchestrated by former general and now president Abdel Fattah El Sisi, says he was disappeared into a secret military prison and brutally tortured repeatedly.

Declining to use his real name out of fear of reprisal, Ibrahim describes a dark and gruesome odyssey.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/19/egypt-s-black-site-torture-camps.html

Egypt’s hidden prison: ‘disappeared’ face torture in Azouli military jail

Hundreds of “disappeared” Egyptians are being tortured and held outside of judicial oversight in a secret military prison, according to Guardian interviews with former inmates, lawyers, rights activists and families of missing persons.

Since at least the end of July 2013, detainees have been taken there blindfolded and forcibly disappeared. Up to 400 are still being tortured and held outside of judicial oversight in the clearest example of a wide-scale crackdown that Amnesty and Human Rights Watch have jointly called “repression on a scale unprecedented in Egypt’s modern history

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/22/disappeared-egyptians-torture-secret-military-prison

President Obama and Secretary Kerry KNEW this before Kerry's cozy visit with the pig strongman Al-Sisi- who got everything he wanted from Kerry.

Sickening.