Risk of Impunity for Grave Human Rights Abuses
authorities appear to have made opaque amnesty deals in recent years with suspected members of the Islamic State affiliate in Egypt's North Sinai without making the criteria public, Human Rights Watch and the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights said today.
Since 2020, the Egyptian authorities have been encouraging members of Wilayat Sina' to surrender under security initiatives facilitated by North Sinai local clan leaders, based on Human Rights Watch and the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights spoke with one member of a pro-government militia in North Sinai in 2023 who said that a senior military leader in Battalion 101, al-Arish, whose name is withheld for their security, informed the militia that he ordered the distribution of flyers, some of which the two organizations reviewed, throughout the region calling on Wilayat Sina' suspects to turn themselves in so that authorities could obtain useful information.
The same pro-government militia member said that his relative, whose name is withheld for his safety, and who was a member of Wilayat Sina', surrendered to the militia in late 2022 after the militia participated in a military operation in al-Moqat'a village, near the town of Sheikh Zuweid.
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