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 … ]
While the Obama administration is pouring $1.3 billion in an annual U.S. military aid to the al-Sisi military regime, the Egyptian government is waging war against what it describes as an American-inspired plot to divide [ More … ]
Justice Human Rights Organization –an independent rights organization- has released a report titled: “Bitter Recap” to document human rights violations in Egypt throughout the last 3 years, from (July 2013-July 2016) The report was released [ More … ]
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