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==== Egypt ====
[[Egypt]] is home to Africa's and the Middle East's first internal security service: The [[State Security Investigations Service]]. Initially it was formed during the British occupation of Egypt as the Intelligence wing of the [[Egyptian National Police|regular police]]. After the [[1952 Egyptian revolution|1952 coup]], the State Security apparatus was reformed and reorganized to suit the security concerns of the new socialist regime of Gamal Abdel Nasser. The SSIS was made a separate branch of the [[Ministry of Interior (Egypt)|Ministry of Interior]] and separated from the [[Egyptian National Police|regular police]] command. During the Nasser era, It was intensively trained by the Soviet [[KGB]] on coercive interrogation techniques, mass surveillance, public intimidation and political suppression. The SSIS was responsible for suppressing opposition groups to Nasser and his successors (Sadat and Mubarak). Torture was a systematic practice by that repressive apparatus. During the [[War on Terror]], The SSIS used to receive suspected terrorists that were sent to Egypt from the United States and used to interrogate them using torture. After the [[2011 Egyptian Revolution|2011 revolution]], demonstrators demanded that the service be dissolved and several buildings (including the headquarters in Nasr City) were stormed by protesters that gathered evidence of torture tools, secret cells and documents showing surveillance on citizens. On March 15 2011, Egypt's Minister of Interior announced the dissolution of the State Security and declared the new National Security Agency would replace it and be responsible for its internal security and counter-terrorist duties.