Egypt’s chief prosecutor denied allegations that the police tortured a human rights activist and vocal critic of President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi.
In this undated photo provided by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a local Non-Governmental Organization, Egyptian activist and researcher Patrick George Zaki, poses for a photograph, in Egypt. A local rights group says Egyptian officials have transferred Zaki who was arrested on arrival at Cairo's airport to a "less favorable" detention facility. The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights said Thursday, Feb.
His defense attorney Huda Nasrallah also told The Associated Press that Zaki repeated his torture allegations on Saturday during a court hearing to appeal his detention. He's being held while prosecutors investigate claims of disseminating false news and calling for unauthorized protests. The court rejected the appeal.
Sunday's two-page statement from the office of General Prosecutor Hamada el-Sawy said Zaki did not report that he was “harmed or violated during his arrest or detention" when he spoke to the public prosecution on Feb. 8, the day after his arrest.
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