denied access to lawyers. The torture allegedly included assault, suspension by the wrists, electric shocks and threats of rape to their female relatives. The Complainant avers that the records of the National Security Reports for the arrest of two of the Victims who were arrested on 19 and 20 April 2015 respectively, were post-dated by two months in order to cover up the prolonged periods of secret detention. The Complainant states that complaints filed by families of the Victims with the Public Prosecutor's Office following their forced disappearances and torture were not acted upon and the cases closed. 10. The Complainant alleges that the sentence in this case was based solely on the statements obtained under torture and the testimonies of state security officers. The Complainant alleges that the Court failed to consider an expert report on the manner of detonation of the explosives and also ignored eyewitness testimonies which confirmed that the Victims were not present at the scene when the crime took place, as well as the admission by the military investigators that the CCTV'footage could not accurately identify the culprits. 11. The third case relates to the upholding on 03 July 2017 by the Court of Cassation of the death sentence verdict of three of the Victims who took part in a sit-in at Rabaa Adawiya, which was violently dispersed by the Dispersal case). The Complainant alleges that the Egyptian security forces Al (Rabaa Victims were arrested and forcibly disappeared, and while in detention, were subjected to severe beatings and electrocution. The Complainant further reliance by prosecutors the and Court alleges on failure by that the information the trial in Court to was case allow rife with papers the irregularities, which Victims to had been including Jost present their by the defence witness-es. 12. The fourth case relates to the upholding on 24 April 2017 by the Court of Cassation ofthe death sentence verdict of one of the Victims for allegedly killing a Coptic man during a protest in Alexandria Complainant incident, and avers these that on a 15 key August 2013 eyewitness contradictions were (Alexandria gave five protest different not addressed killing accounts case). of in the judgement, the the The same Court disregarded stark differences between the account of the arrest told by the defence and the criminal investigation agent and the Court also disregarded an official statement from his employer that the Victim was in fact at work when the crime was committed. The Complainant further avers that the Victim was tortured by the NSA in a failed attempt to get him to confess and that the Court relied solely on the testimony of one witness who was pressured into testifying by an NSA officer. 13. The fifth and final case relates to the upholding on 16 September 2017 by the Court of