Amnesty castigated the ‘inhuman conditions’ at Egypt’s new jail, Badr 3 Prison, where relatives, lawyers of inmates at Badr 3 facility report insufficient food, clothing and books, inadequate medical care, bans on family visits Badr [ More … ]
Amnesty International has accused Egypt of attempting to cover up a decade of “unrelenting violations of human rights” in order to improve its international standing ahead of hosting the world climate summit. Amnesty International’s analysis [ More … ]
An Egyptian court on Tuesday sentenced ten people to death and long jail sentences of up to life imprisonment against 153 others , a judicial source said. On its part, Amnesty International has condemned the [ More … ]
Egypt carried out at least 83 executions in 2021, the third-highest total in the world, according to a report released yesterday by Amnesty International. The Amnesty International report also stated that Egyptian courts sentenced 356 [ More … ]
Amnesty International has released a statement demanding that Egypt stop the “ongoing trials of dozens of arbitrarily detained human rights defenders, activists, opposition politicians, and peaceful protesters by emergency courts.” The welcome lifting of a [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities are abusing counter-terrorism laws to arbitrarily detain a leading businessman and his son in conditions that amount to torture in reprisal for their refusal to hand over company assets, Amnesty International said yesterday. [ More … ]
A recent Amnesty report says victims were subjected to ‘intrusive questioning’ with threats of torture against them and their families Amnesty International yesterday, Thursday, accused Egyptian security agencies of “persistent intimidation and harassment” of human [ More … ]
Amnesty International has said that waiving restrictions on US military assistance to Egypt risks America becoming complicit in human rights abuses. The statement made by the advocacy director for the Middle East and North Africa [ More … ]
The Egyptian Public Prosecutor must urgently investigate what appear to be extrajudicial executions by members of the military in North Sinai, said Amnesty International following an analysis of a military propaganda video. A video released [ More … ]
Amnesty International has called on Iraq to reveal the whereabouts of 643 Sunni men and young boys who were kidnapped by the pro-Iran Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) during operations to retake Fallujah city from Daesh [ More … ]
Amnesty International said evidence indicated Israel has launched ‘violent raids on al-Aqsa’ and ‘unprovoked attacks on peaceful demonstrators in Sheikh Jarrah.’ Amnesty International has condemned Israeli violence and forced evictions against Palestinians in occupied East [ More … ]
Amnesty International said the death sentences that have recently carried out in Egypt were issued following grossly unfair trials, where defendants were denied access to their lawyers and were coerced to ‘confess’. While ‘We Record’ [ More … ]
Amnesty International’s MENA advocacy director has called on US President Joe Biden to denounce human rights in Egypt and demand change. “Tens of thousands of people have been swept up and detained in Egypt, and [ More … ]
International community must put pressure on Egypt to prevent prison deaths, warns Amnesty International A decade after the uprising that overturned politics in Egypt, political prisoners are being targeted inside the country’s overcrowded prison system. [ More … ]
Amnesty International calls upon authorities to allow family visits as well as regular contacts with lawyers to all detainees in Sisi’s prisons Amnesty has called on the coup authorities in Egypt to allow all detainees [ More … ]
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