Lawyers shout slogans against the Interior Ministry during a protest in front of the Lawyers Syndicate headquarters in Cairo, March 1, 2015, after the death of lawyer Karim Hamdy in the Police Department last week. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
CAIRO (Reuters) - Amnesty International has accused the Egyptian authorities of jailing young activists to quell unrest under one of the toughest crackdowns in the country's history.
In a report released Tuesday called "Generation Jail: Egypt's youth go from protest to prison," Amnesty looked at the cases of 14 young people among thousands it said were arbitrarily imprisoned in Egypt in the past two years in connection with protests.
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