The Amnesty Review, quarterly publication of Amnesty International, reported today that there were only between 200 and 400 Jews still being held in Egyptian jails and that they were “treated well, or at least not any worse than the other inmates.” The periodical also assorted that there were about 3,000 members of the outlawed Moslem Brotherhood imprisoned in Egypt but called the Israeli Government’s claim that at least 70,000 persons are incarcerated a “highly exaggerated figure.”
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