Human Rights Watch director barred from Egypt

The Executive Director of Human Rights Watch and another senior staff member have been denied entry to Egypt.

Kenneth Roth and Sarah Leah Whitson were in Cairo to launch a report by the group on mass killings last year.

Hundreds of people were killed in August last year after security forces broke up protests against the ousting of President Mohammed Morsi.

President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, who was elected Head of State in May, was the army chief at the time of the killings.

Human Rights Watch is one of a number of rights groups that have expressed alarm at a broad crackdown on dissent by authorities since the army's overthrow of Mr Morsi in July last year.

BBC