Egypt:  End the cruel denial of family visits to detainees
(World News Egypt)

Egyptian authorities are flagrantly violating international law by denying family visits to scores of detainees, Amnesty International said today. The organization has examined an official document which confirms there is an open-ended ban on family visits in a number of sections at two major prison complexes in Cairo and Alexandria. Amnesty International has also recorded at least 61 cases of people who were prevented from receiving family visits for protracted periods - in some cases for up to two years - at Tora prison in Cairo and Borg al-Arab in Alexandria. The total number of detainees barred from receiving family visits at these two prisons is likely to be much higher. `Egypt´s...