January 28, 2023
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Feed
  • Pin
MEO - Facts ,Background and Analysis
  • Home
  • Latest News
  • Analysis
  • Column
  • Lite Media
    • Video
    • Infograph
  • Other
    • Refugee Crisis
    • Aleppo
    • HOMS
    • Islamic State News
  • Turkey
  • Egypt
  • Gulf
    • BAHRAIN
    • KUWAIT
    • OMAN
    • QATAR
    • SAUDI ARABIA
    • UAE
    • Iran
    • Iraq
  • Syria
  • Palestine
  • Israel
  • North Africa
    • Libya
    • Algeria
    • Morocco
    • Tunisia
Homeabuse

abuse

Egypt Latest News

As Sisi calls for political dialogue, recent arrests tell a different story!

April 29, 2022 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt: Rights defenders condemn targeting family of US activist “Soltan”

November 16, 2021 MEO Staff

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 Latest News

Cairo university media professor detained for criticizing regime media

September 30, 2021 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt executes 16 persons in one week

March 3, 2021 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egyptian prisoners start mass hunger strike due to abusive treatment

October 15, 2020 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

U.S. military aid to Egypt gives a ‘green light’ to repression, a report

August 10, 2018 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Rights Groups Fear Egypt’s Military Targeting Dissidents

July 21, 2018 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Iraq Latest News

Iraq forces reportedly involved in abuses against civilians in Iraq’s Mosul

May 25, 2017 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt’s new emergency measures grant exceptional powers to Al-Sisi and his security forces

April 12, 2017 Ahmed Rashed

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Leukemia-infected young detainee fighting for life in Egypt’s notorious prisons  

March 20, 2017 Ahmed Rashed

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

A New Report Reveals Human Rights Abuses in Egypt’s Al-Wadi-Al-Gadid Prison

December 28, 2016 Ahmed Rashed

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

A New HRW Report: “Torture, Cruel, and Inhuman Treatment in Scorpion Prison”

September 28, 2016 Ahmed Rashed

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Ibrahim Halawa Suffered Recent Beatings and Racist Abuses in Egypt’s Prison

September 3, 2016 Ahmed Rashed

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

HRW Denounces The Trial Of The Anti-Corruption Czar

August 9, 2016 Ahmed Rashed

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Amnesty New Report: Enforced Disappearance Has Become a Key Instrument of State Policy in Egypt

July 13, 2016 Ahmed Rashed

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 … ]

Posts navigation

1 2 »

Latest

Egypt: Independent organizations submit a new human rights report to the UN

Egypt Latest News
January 27, 2023

West Bank: Israel kills nine Palestinians in a new ‘massacre’ in Jenin

Israel Latest News
January 26, 2023

Egypt: ‘Inflation is so high that eggs are a luxury’, says NYT

Egypt Latest News
January 25, 2023

Egypt: “Food price shocks and diets among poor households”, report

Egypt Latest News
January 24, 2023

Egypt: EIPR calls on Sisi to abolish unfair verdicts against Aboul Fotouh, Al Qassas and Al-Sharqaw

Egypt Latest News
January 23, 2023
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Feed
  • Pin

Random

  • UN: Darayya is the capital of barrel bombs in Syria
  • Hashemi Rafsanjani: Honest Reformist or cruel criminal?
  • Contact Us
  • SiteMap

Copyright © 2016 | Middle East Observer