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⭕️ Several of the journalists from the news platform Matsdaash who were detained and forcibly disappeared in Egypt last week told prosecutors on Sunday they had been tortured at National Security Agency facilities in the days following their arrests, according to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR).

🔸 The journalists described being bound with their hands behind their backs and blindfolded while being held and interrogated at National Security facilities. They also reported beatings, forced stripping, electric shocks, and threats to harm them or their families, EIPR reported. The journalists also said officers forced them to read statements on camera in order to record false confessions. 🔸 The prosecution’s questioning of five of the journalists—Abdallah Qadry, Islam Barakat, Omar Helal, Mohamed Adel, and Mohamed Mahmoud—is scheduled to continue on Monday. Questioning was completed on Sunday for the sixth journalist, Mohamed Ashraf Abu Emeira, and the Supreme State Security Prosecution ordered him to be held in pretrial detention for 15 days pending investigation. 🔸 The families and lawyers of the journalists still do not know where they are being held. 🔸 On Capitol Hill, several members of congress have called for the journalists’ immediate release, including the Egypt Human Rights Caucus, co-chaired by Reps. Don Beyer and Suzan DelBene; Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, and Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon.

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