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CAIRO — Hundreds of people went missing in Egypt during protests that toppled president Hosni Mubarak, a leading human rights group said on Tuesday, alleging that some are being held by the army.
Gamal Eid, a lawyer who heads the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, said: “There are hundreds of detained, but information on their numbers is still not complete ... The army was holding detainees.”
His group said in a statement that it was still receiving “information relating to the disappearances of many youths and citizens.”
Eid urged the military to publish a list of detainees names regardless of the reasons for their arrest, and to guarantee all of them their rights.
The military “sorts out the detainees based on the reason for their arrest, and this could take time,
but that does not excuse not announcing their names and places of detention,” he said.
Local media have begun to report detentions, with the independent daily newspaper Al-Masry Al-
Youm publishing a list of names of people who reportedly went missing in the past weeks.
Those recorded in the list are mostly between the ages of 15 and 48 years, men and women, and went
missing between January 25, the first day of anti-government protests, and February 9.
Nassir Amin, a lawyer who heads the Arab Centre for Judicial Independence, said the military might
be holding people, but a number of the detainees were arrested by plainclothes police as they left
protests in Tahrir Square.
The protests in the square in the heart of Cairo were the epicentre of the revolt that forced Mubarak to resign on February 11.
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