BBC Online :
The executive director of Human Rights Watch and another senior staff member have been denied entry to Egypt.
Kenneth Roth and Sarah Leah Whitson were in Cairo to launch a report by the group on mass killings last year.
Hundreds of people were killed on 14 August 2013 after security forces broke up protests against the ousting of President Mohammed Mursi.
President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, who was elected head of state in May, was the army chief at the time of the killings.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is one of a number of rights groups that have expressed alarm at a broad crackdown on dissent by authorities since the army’s overthrow of Mursi in July 2013.
After arriving at Cairo International Airport, the pair were detained by officials for 12 hours before being put on planes out of the country.
