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Jefferson23

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Tue Jun 9, 2015, 11:03 PM Jun 2015

HRW report on rights abuses rejected by Egypt as 'politicized'

Cairo (AFP) - Egypt lashed out Tuesday at a Human Rights Watch report condemning "flagrant human rights abuses" during the first year of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's rule, dismissing it as "politicized."

The watchdog released its report on the first anniversary of the inauguration of Sisi, who was sworn in on June 8, 2014, after having ousted his Islamist predecessor Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president, in July 2013.

"The report is politicized and lacks the basic rules of precision and objectivity," the foreign ministry said in a statement, accusing HRW of victimizing Egypt.

The ministry further alleged that the report reflected HRW's "endorsement of terrorist operations and supports those who carry out acts of violence," accusing the New York-based group of "leading a systematic campaign against Egypt."

HRW argued through series of documentations that "over the past year, Sisi and his cabinet have provided near total impunity for security force abuses and issued a raft of laws that severely curtailed civil and political rights."

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