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Posted: Nov 7 07
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This text and video is from Aljazeera youtube channel.
Date:10 Aug., 2007
Fresh allegations of police brutality, have been made in Egypt, with one woman telling Al Jazeera, how her son was beaten, and then dragged through the streets of a Cairo suburb.
Another woman has claimed that her husband was thrown off a balcony.
Al Jazeera's Nicole Johnston reports as an Egyptian human rights group claims torture is rife in the country's prisons.
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