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Victims of Egypt’s old regime still await justice

June 4th, 2012

FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 23, 2011 file photo, an Egyptian man chants slogans and holds a poster that reads, in Arabic, "Islamic Egypt," during a demonstration held by a Salafi group to protest the emergency law, in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt. Under Mubarak, there were no mass killings along the lines of South African or some Latin American dictatorships in the 1980s. But tens of thousands of political prisoners were detained under emergency laws that expired last week after 31 years in force. Torture was systematic, and often extreme, and corruption was completely endemic. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)Tied to a bed, Nasr al-Sayed Hassan Nasr was tortured for days with electric shocks during his 2010 detention for membership in the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood — one of tens of thousands of political prisoners under Hosni Mubarak's 29-year rule.

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