location: Bani Suwayf
notes: A 32-year-old Egyptian government engineer disappeared in mid-January when, according to witnesses, masked police burst into his office in the southern city of Beni Suef and dragged him off in handcuffs in front of his co-workers. On Jan. 25, he turned up dead. Police provided a different story saying they shot and killed him when he tried to storm a checkpoint.
target_text: location: Bani Suwayf, fatalities: 1