Egypt forcibly disappears two women amid coronavirus crackdown: Rights group
Marwa Arafa, 27, and Kholoud Said, 35, disappeared last week at the hands of Egyptian security services, Human Rights Watch said.
Egyptian security forces arbitrarily arrested and forcibly disappeared two women, according to Human Rights Watch, which called for their immediate release.
The New York-based group urged authorities today to disclose the whereabouts of two professional translators who disappeared last week, 27-year-old Marwa Arafa and 35-year-old Kholoud Said.
According to Human Rights Watch, Egyptian security forces arrested Arafa and Said at their homes, and charged Said with joining a terrorist group and spreading fake news. A friend said prosecutors focused their interrogation on Said’s recent Facebook posts, which contained links to articles criticizing the Egyptian government.
“No warrants, no explanations — this is the behavior of a security establishment run amok,” said Amr Magdi, a Middle East and North Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch.
