CAIRO — Egyptian rights activists on Friday accused guards at a Cairo prison of torturing an inmate to death in a case that they said points to the continued rampant use of torture and human rights abuses by security forces since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.
Popular anger over the use of torture was a key grievance behind the mass uprising that toppled Mubarak in February. Activists see the death of Essam Atta, 23, at a Cairo hospital late Thursday as an indication that little has changed since then. Egyptian authorities denied allegations that the guards had a hand in Atta's death.
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