Egypt speedily cracking down on it youths just 2 years after removal of ousted President Mohamed Morsi

Barely two years since the removal of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi from power, the country has dived from "mass protest to mass incarceration".

The report, "Generation Jail: Egypt's Youth Go from Protests to Prison", details the country's increasingly repressive state. Its release on Tuesday marks the second anniversary of Egypt's June 30 protests, whose participants are now facing arbitrary arrests and prison.

"Mass protests have been replaced by mass arrests," said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Amnesty International. "By relentlessly targeting Egypt's youth activists, the authorities are crushing an entire generation's hopes for a brighter future," Sahraoui added.

Report said that at least activists estimate that 41,000 people have been arrested, charged or indicted, often through unfair trials where evidence consists solely of statements by security forces.

The report's researchers emphasise that the Egyptian society has seen its avenues for free speech and protest clang shut as the government under President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi seeks to stifle scores of activists, politicians and youth in the name of state security.

Report said that at least activists estimate that 41,000 people have been arrested, charged or indicted

The report focuses on 14 young people who were among the thousands that have been subjected to arbitrary arrests and practices "which do not comply with international law".

The authorities' repression of dissent and opposition originally began with the jailing of Muslim Brotherhood leaders and their supporters. Now, however, its scope has reached university campuses and public streets, family homes, and the offices of human rights groups.

"Egypt today is a police state," said Nicholas Piachaud, a researcher on the Egypt team for Amnesty International. "People are deeply afraid of the knock on the door in the night," Piachaud told Al Jazeera.

For the youth in the country, who once enjoyed global praise for being the pulsing centre of Egypt's protest movements, the crackdown has been an overwhelming source of fear and despair.

Egypt's international partners have been silent on the matter, choosing to welcome Sisi back into the political fold

One young man, Mohamed Ahmed Hussein, was just 18 years old when he was arrested for wearing a T-shirt with a political slogan on it. He has now spent 500 days in prison without charge or trial, and his family says that his body carries the marks of torture.

"The authorities have made it clear that now, what they wish to do is tear the heart out of the protest movement," Piachaud said. "It's their way or prison."