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22 Jun 2020

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Amnesty International

Egypt: Health care workers forced to make impossible choice between "death or jail"

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"Egypt: Health care workers forced to make impossible choice between ‘death or jail’", 18th of June 2020

The Egyptian authorities must immediately stop their campaign of harassment and intimidation against frontline health care workers who express safety concerns or criticize the government’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis, Amnesty International said today.

..The organization documented how Egyptian authorities have used vague and overly broad charges of "spreading false news" and "terrorism" to arbitrarily arrest and detain health care workers who speak out and have subjected them to threats, harassment and punitive administrative measures.