Sec. 1345. Report and determination on extrajudicial killings and torture by Egyptian Government security forces
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Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on incidents of state-sanctioned extrajudicial killings and torture by the security forces of the Government of Egypt. The report required under subsection
(a)shall include the following: A detailed description of incidents of state-sanctioned extrajudicial killings and torture by the security forces of the Government of Egypt in the seven years immediately preceding the submission of such report. A determination of whether such incidents constitute a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights. An identification of the unit names of any Egyptian security forces added to the Department of State-administered list of units to which security assistance may not be furnished pursuant to any reports containing credible information on extrajudicial killings and torture, which reports were received in the seven years immediately preceding the submission of the report required under subsection (a). The report required under subsection
(a)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but the portions of the report described in paragraphs
(2)and
(3)may contain a classified annex if such annex is provided separately from such unclassified report. In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means the congressional defense committees and— the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.