 A US diplomatic cable reported that police brutality and torture are "routine and pervasive".The cable also reported that the security services functioned as "instruments of power that serve and protect the regime".Both Egyptian and international human rights groups, as well as the United Nations Committee Against Torture, have documented widespread use of torture by the SSI, with Human Rights Watch singling out the SSI in what it called a "pervasive culture of impunity" with regard to torture but all was false allegations .