Policing

A U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday that it is troubled by a group of international experts' complaints of obstacles to their investigation into the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico. Rupert Colville, spokesman for the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a statement that the office is "concerned about the many challenges and obstacles reported by the experts," including the ability to examine other lines of investigation such the possible roles of the military and other officials in the case.

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt sent what seemed like all of his men onto the streets of Cairo on Monday, in a show of force and anxiety aimed at preventing any protests against his rule, and denying his growing chorus of critics any public space.

Although the Interior Ministry acknowledged a number of cases of police abuse reported by local and international media, top police officials have often dubbed the assaults "individual cases," adding, as if by explanation, that lower-ranked officers do not go through the same training and educational programs their superiors undertake.

An army captain and a soldier were arrested Thursday as a video emerged showing a woman being tortured by troops and an apparent police officer, Mexico's defense ministry informed.