{"id":225021,"date":"2026-02-25T00:32:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-ngo-denounces-the-detention-and-torture-of-eritrean-refugees-in-egypt\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T00:32:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:32:04","slug":"egypt-ngo-denounces-the-detention-and-torture-of-eritrean-refugees-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-ngo-denounces-the-detention-and-torture-of-eritrean-refugees-in-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: NGO Denounces the Detention and Torture of Eritrean Refugees in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em> More than 3,000 Eritrean refugees have been detained in Egypt this year and some have reported sexual violence and torture, a human rights NGO said Monday. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The report, published by Human Rights Concern &#8211; Eritrea (<a href=\"https:\/\/hrc-eritrea.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HRCE<\/a>), states that more than 3,000 refugees from the country have been arrested in Egypt since 10 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The NGO says it gathered testimonies and photographic evidence indicating that many detainees had suffered &#8220;beatings and burns inflicted with hot water and corrosive substances&#8221;,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602240417.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 3,000 Eritrean refugees have been detained in Egypt this year and some have reported sexual violence and torture, a human rights NGO said Monday. The report, published by Human Rights Concern &#8211; Eritrea (HRCE), states that more than 3,000 refugees from the country have been arrested in Egypt since 10 January. The NGO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":225022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,8435,6978,4697,415,13746,257,9222,1219,254,265],"class_list":["post-225021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-denounces","tag-detention","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-eritrean","tag-news","tag-ngo","tag-refugees","tag-south-africa-today","tag-torture"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}