The State Department expressed concern about the increasing crackdowns on civil liberties in Egypt, stating that the country witnessed many human rights violations this year.
The report noted that domestic violence and societal discrimination against women were widespread.
"The most significant human rights problems during the year were threats to women's rights, with an increasingly challenging environment in which women faced assaults and sexual harassment and often were unable to assemble peacefully without male protection."
The State Department report, published on official page of the U.S. embassy in Cairo, said that a restrictive nongovernmental organization (NGO) law continued to hinder freedom of association.
It also provided that migrants in the Sinai Peninsula were detained unlawfully and subjected to sexual and physical violence by non-state actors.
The report said, "Abuse of children and discrimination against persons with disabilities remained problems, as did discrimination based on sexual orientation and against persons who were HIV-positive."
The report also addressed human rights problems including killings of protesters, physical abuse and torture by security forces.
It commented on the "poor prison conditions, infringements on citizens' privacy rights, and discrimination against religious minorities in employment and church construction."
The report also monitored a "failure to prosecute perpetrators of violence against religious minorities and in some cases to protect minorities from violence."
In the labor sector, the human rights report cited child labor as a serious problem and said that the security forces sometimes used force to disperse strikes and sit-ins.
The annual report, mandated by the congress, covers internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The first report covered the year 1976, issued in 1977.
