Egypt, the “revolving door system” that allows the regime to keep opponents in prison for years without trial

A gash in the wall of silence. It is the painstaking investigation, all based on data, that the New York Times he published Saturday after a year of work in his Cairo office: the American newspaper gave the name and surname to thousands of people detained – often without notifying their families – in Egyptian prisons. People arrested and later accused, mostly of spreading false news and association with terrorist groups who, under Egyptian law, can remain in prison for up to two years without trial, in an endless series of postponements.