While Sisi is calling for a political dialogue, touting his regime’s supposed openness and tolerance, however a spate of recent arrests tells a different story Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has used the so-called “Egyptian Family [ More … ]
Human rights organizations say treatment of Dr. Salah Soltan, father of Mohamed Soltan, may amount to enforced disappearance as well as torture An alliance of leading human rights organizations have voiced serious concern about Egypt’s [ More … ]
Egypt has arrested Dr. Ayman Mansour Nada, a media professor who criticized pro-regime media figures close to the regime. Rassd News Network posted a tweet, saying: Professor of Mass Communication at Cairo University Dr. Ayman [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities have executed 16 people convicted and sentenced to death in criminal cases this week, a significant hike in the number of executions in the country. Yesterday alone (Tuesday), authorities executed 11 people in [ More … ]
Prisoners at Tora Istiqbal Prison are demanding putting an end to harsh disciplinary measures, according to rights groups Detainees at one of Egypt’s most notorious prisons have gone on hunger strike in protest against ill-treatment, [ More … ]
The Trump administration’s recent decision to release $195 million in military aid to Egypt has left rights experts stunned and deeply worried, says an NPR report. A year ago, then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson suspended [ More … ]
As Egypt is cracking down on militants across the country, particularly in the country’s Sinai region, some experts and rights groups have voiced concerns that the country’s security forces are using counterterror measures to target [ More … ]
Iraqi forces and militias deployed to fight the Islamic State group from Mosul, ISIS last stronghold in Iraq, have abused civilians according to The New Arab news website. In a team of seven foreign reporters [ More … ]
After deadly bombings hit two Coptic churches on Sunday, killing at least 45 people, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi declared a three-month state of emergency. However, the new emergency measures are said to grant broad powers to security [ More … ]
Egyptian activists have launched a campaign on the social media that calls for the release of a young detainee who suffers from leukemia. Activists said that they suspect that the young detainee was afflicted by [ More … ]
In coincidence with the International Day for Human Rights, Adalah Center for Rights and Freedoms (ACRF) issued a report entitled “The Exile .. a documentary report for the violations in (Egypt’s) Al-Wadi Al-Jadid Prison”. The report [ More … ]
Human Rights Watch has released a report titled:”We are in Tombs:Abuses in Egypt’s Scorpion Prison” which highlights how the Egyptian authorities routinely abuse inmates in ways that may have contributed to the death of some [ More … ]
Ibrahim Halawa, an Irish citizen in Egypt’s notorious prisons, has witnessed fresh abuse from the prisons’ guards. The Guardian has published a new letter sent by Ibrahim Halawa who unveiled that he has suffered beatings [ More … ]
The Human Rights Watch criticized the trial of the former anti-corruption Tsar saying that the Egyptian prosecutors should drop a case against the country’s former chief corruption auditor that violates the right to free speech and [ More … ]
Amnesty International has released a new report saying that hundreds of Egyptians have been forcibly disappeared and tortured in a “sinister” campaign to wipe out peaceful dissent in the most populous country in the Arab [ More … ]
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