Eqgytian PM: U.S. has sent up to 70 terror suspects to Egypt: none has been subjected to torture ... as cited by a State Department 2004 report

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The United States has transferred as many as 70 terrorism suspects to Egypt, but none has been subjected to torture during interrogations there, Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif said on Sunday.

In a flat denial of allegations aired by human rights advocates and other critics, Nazif said torture is not a widespread practice in Egypt and suggested the problem was one of police abuse rather than standard policy.

'It happens sometimes, and we've seen police abuses all over the world. But I don't think it should be taken as a standard practice,' Nazif said on NBC's 'Meet the Press.'
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Human Rights Watch said torture was so widespread in Egypt, especially in national security cases, that each transfer from the United States and other countries constituted a violation of international conventions against torture.

Torture was also among human rights abuses cited by a State Department report on Egypt for 2004.