Amnesty International has accused the Egyptian government of making enforced disappearances an instrument of state policy. The report focuses on 17 cases in which prisoners were held incommunicado for as long as seven months. The Egyptian government has jailed more than 30,000 people for political activism since 2013, when the government of democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi was overthrown in a military coup. The report says forced disappearances have increased in the last year. The U.S. briefly put military aid to Egypt on hold after the 2013 coup, but has since resumed its support for the government of former General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.