Egypt’s ex-PM faces torture allegation in American’s lawsuit

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CAIRO: After his arrest in 2013 for documenting the deadliest crackdown on protesters in Egypt’s modern history, Mohamed Soltan landed in a notorious prison where he says he was brutally tortured for 21 months. He never thought he’d get a chance to fight back, let alone make it out alive. But on Monday, Soltan, a 32-year-old US citizen now living in Virginia, used a little-known federal statute to accuse former Egyptian prime minister Hazem el-Beblawi of crimes against humanity. The law, called the 1991 Torture Victims Protection Act, allows for victims of torture and...

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