Following the terrorist attacks in Cairo on 30 April 2005, the Egyptian authorities reportedly arrested and detained around 200 people from the villages of origin of the alleged perpetrators. The alleged instigator of the attacks reportedly died in custody, raising new concerns regarding torture and ill-treatment in Egypt, said by the UN Committee against Torture to be widespread.
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