Amnesty International has called on Egyptian authorities to stop their “appalling reprisals” against detainees and family members who leaked videos to the media showing torture at a Cairo police station. The human rights watchdog called on Egypt in a statement on Monday to release the detainees and drop the charges against them, which included “spreading false news”, “membership in a terrorist group” and “aiding a terrorist group”. On 24 January, The Guardian reported that it had received videos showing detainees being tortured at a police station in the working-class Al-Salam district of nort…

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