Egypt`s former PM faces torture allegations in Washington DC
(World News USA)

CAIRO (AP) — After his arrest in 2013 for documenting the deadliest crackdown on protesters in Egypt`s modern history, Mohammed Soltan landed in a notorious prison where he says he was brutally tortured for 21 months. He never thought he`d get a chance to fight back - let alone make it out alive. But on Monday, Soltan, a 32-year-old U.S. citizen now living in Virginia, used a little-known federal statute to accuse former Egyptian prime minister Hazem el-Beblawi of crimes against humanity. The law, called the 1991 Torture Victims Protection Act, allows for victims of torture and extrajudicial...