App launches in Egypt to combat forced disappearances

Disguised as a calculator on smartphone screens, I Protect alerts contacts and a local human rights group if the user is arrested

For Egyptians, the risk of being snatched from the street and forcibly disappeared by the country's security forces has never been greater.

In the first eight months of 2015, 1,250 people disappeared, according to a report by the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF).