Egypt blocks HRW website

Egypt blocks HRW website: Egypt added the website for Human Rights Watch to its growing list of blocked websites on Friday, one day after the organization issued a report about “systematic torture in the country’s jails,” Reuters reports. Egypt’s Foreign Ministry responded to the report, which claims torture is widespread and could be classified as a “crime against humanity,” accusing HRW of being biased and failing to understand the situation in Egypt. The number of blocked websites in Egypt has reached 424, the wire service notes, citing data from the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression. The website was still inaccessible at dispatch time.