Egypt tortures for the US, so why not on its own account?

Egypt tortures for the US, so why not on its own account?

Human rights cannot be regional or selective: Guantánamo, Belmarsh, Laz
Oghli and Facility 1391 stand or fall together

Ahdaf Soueif
Thursday March 9, 2006
The Guardian

The story of Maajid Nawaz, Ian Nisbet and Reza Pankhurst, the three British
Muslims who travelled to Egypt with their families, their detention there,
their trial and their release now, almost four years later, encapsulates
several elements in the "east-west" or "war on terror" story. Media coverage
in the UK has focused on the men's Britishness and whether the British
government did enough to help them. As usual, events outside the western
hemisphere are presented as though in a void. So here's a pencilling in of
the local background.

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