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How Sisi's Egypt Hands Out Justice

Reuters

   KAFR AL-SHEIKH, EGYPT - Security forces detained Lotfy Ibrahim, a young
   construction worker, as he left a mosque near his home on the Nile
   Delta in the spring of 2015. When his family finally saw him again
   nearly three months later, he was in jail, looking badly brutalized.

   "He rolled his sleeves down so we couldn't see the signs of torture,"
   said Ibrahim's mother, Tahany. "But I saw burns on his arm. His face
   was pale, and his hair was shaved off."

   Ibrahim, then 20, was eventually tried on charges of murdering three
   military academy students in a roadside bombing.

   He swore his innocence. His family said his lawyer had proof in the
   shape of a confession by the real perpetrators. But the lawyer was
   arrested and the new evidence was ignored by the authorities, the
   family said. Reuters didn't see the confession.