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Sexual violence against detainees in Egypt is “systemic”, according to a report by The Egyptian Front for Human Rights and Freedom released on Thursday. The rights group, based in the Czech Republic, monitored 655 cases of sexual violence against detainees and their families occurring between 2015 and 2022 by security personnel and staff in Egypt prisons. The study found that authorities violated human rights in police stations, prisons and detention centres, and used “sexual violence as a means of physical and moral coercion on detainees, and to punish citizens and control their bodies”, acco…