Cairo, Jan 21, 2020 – An Egyptian court has ordered the country’s interior minister to reveal the whereabouts of a missing former parliamentarian believed to be in state custody, his wife told AFP Tuesday. His disappearance for over a year has given rise to accusations that he is in custody, something authorities have previously denied. “We are expecting that they (authorities) will tell us where he is,” Shymaa Afifi, his wife told AFP. Rights groups maintain enforced disappearances of dissidents is a systematic practice that Egyptian authorities have used to muzzle opposition in recent years. Local rights group Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedom, which has advocated for Naggar’s release, confirmed the decision in a Facebook post.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 21, 2020 13:52 UTC