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Egypt cracks down on human rights groups

As a Human Rights Watch delegation is denied entry to Egypt, the country's own human and civil rights groups face the threat of dissolution by the government.
A riot police officer fires tear gas during clashes with student supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and deposed President Mohamed Mursi at the Al-Azhar University campus in Cairo's Nasr City district, May 9, 2014. The protesters marched towards Rabaa square, closing the roads, during a demonstration by members of the Muslim Brotherhood and the pro-Mursi Anti-Coup National Alliance against the military, interior ministry and presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi,, the former army chief who deposed th

On Aug. 12, a special delegation from Human Rights Watch was to visit Cairo. However, Egypt's government had other plans.

The organization was to deliver a briefing alongside the release of its comprehensive report on the Egyptian security forces' “clearance” of Rabia al-Adawiya and other Muslim Brotherhood sit-ins last year that resulted in the deaths of at least 1,150 people.

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