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After Mubarak verdict, justice for victims of Egypt's old regime still only a distant hope
• CAIRO (AP) -- Tied to a bed, Nasr al-Sayed Hassan Nasr was tortured for days with electric shocks during his 2010 detention for membership in the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood -- one of tens of thousands of political prisoners under Hosni Mubarak's 29-year rule. • Stripped and handcuffed in a painful position, Nasr described how security agents shocked his genitals, chest and other bodies parts. "They hadn't asked me a single question at this stage. They seemed to just want me to collapse," he told Human Rights Watch. • And, as with virtually all the abuses under Mubarak's regime, the perpetrators
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