Kenneth Roth and Sarah Leah Whitson were in Cairo to the group published a report on mass killings last year verified. Hundreds of people were killed on 14 August 2013 after security forces defeated the protests against President Mohamed Morsi crash.
President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, who was elected head of state in May, was at that time commander of the army.
Human Rights Watch is one of several groups of human rights that have expressed concern about the use of violence by authorities after the crash Morsi by the army in July 2013.
Once arrived at Cairo's international airport, Roth and Whitson were detained for 12 hours by police before settling on a plane to be sent abroad.
Whitson, chief of the division of HRW's Middle East and North Africa, said later that Egyptian authorities had said that I was away from the country for security reasons.
In a statement, HRW said that this is the first time that the Egyptian authorities deny entry to its staff in the country, according to the group which did not happen even during the regime of former President Hosni Mubarak.
The group said its report, to be published on Tuesday, documents how Egyptian police and army opened fire real ammunition on crowds of demonstrators, following the collapse of Morsi from power.
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