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Egypt's security forces harass activists into silence, Amnesty says

The report said the National Security Agency threatened human rights defenders with arrests and prosecutions, and questioned them about their political activity on social media.
Egypt dissidents

Amnesty International on Thursday accused Egypt’s National Security Agency of attempting to harass and intimidate human rights defenders into silence.

The London-based rights group interviewed 28 people who said that the NSA, which handles terrorism and political cases, threatened them with arrest and prosecution unless they attended police interrogations. The report says the intimidation tactics have increased over the past two years, with thousands of activists impacted.

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