The Egyptian Embassy here denied today charges that appeared in the newspaper, L’Express, that Egyptian Jews arrested during last June’s Six-Day War were degraded and tortured. The charges were made in an article by the Egyptian-Jewish journalist, Berto Farhi, who is now in Paris.
According to the Embassy, 257 Egyptian Jews were arrested last June “for reasons of national security” and 23 of them have since been released. Mr. Farhi replied today that 350 Jews were arrested and 230 are still in prison. He repeated his charge that Egyptian intelligence services tortured Jewish prisoners in order to secure confessions to “imaginary crimes.”
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