This article pertains to the status of Human Rights in Egypt, through the reporting of the US-based Human Rights Watch. A report from the HRW states that human rights in Egypt are deteriorating for a number of different groups throughout the country. Religious discrimination of Copts and Baha’is continues with a number of violent attacks in 2009. Women’s rights are also still curtailed in Egypt, with harassment, domestic violence, mutilation, and a lack of enforced laws which protect women from such abuses. HRW also found that those protesting or voicing dissent against the government have been targeted by police and security forces, sometimes victimized or put in jail without a timely trial. Lastly, HRW calls for reform within the security apparatus and government of Egypt. They claim that these human rights violations give Egypt a bad image, and only confirm that the country is a police state.