The US State Department and human rights groups have expressed alarm over reports that the family of an American citizen, once a political prisoner in Egypt, is being harassed and intimidated by Egyptian security forces.
A statement filed in a US court by Mohamed Soltan, a 32-year-old human rights defender who spent nearly two years in a Cairo prison, alleges armed security forces raided the homes of his relatives overnight on two occasions this month. Five of his male cousins, all in their early 20s, were subjected to enforced disappearance for two days.
