Extrajudicial Killings Have Spiked in Egypt Since May

Extrajudicial Killings Have Spiked in Egypt Since May
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CAIRO — Two months after Sabry Mohammed Said vanished, his body turned up at the morgue. He had been shot three times and severely beaten, his family said.

The 46-year-old accountant and father of five was a rank-and-file member of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood movement. Egyptian authorities claimed he was also a terrorist who was killed in a June gun battle with police.

But Said's daughter Sara Sabry said he hadn't been politically active in three years and had never been arrested. When relatives went to get a police report, the precinct had no record of the incident.

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