The next Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Egypt’s human rights record is scheduled for 13 November 2019, under the auspices of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Amnesty International together with 17 other international [ More … ]
The Egyptian authorities must immediately end cruel and inhumane detention conditions and allow regular family visits at al-Aqrab maximum security prison in Tora where approximately 130 detainees have gone on a mass hunger strike for [ More … ]
Amnesty International has condemned the Egyptian authorities’ “revolving door” practice of re-imprisoning activists, journalists and others after their release from detention is ordered by judges. Al Jazeera producer and Ola Qaradawi are among those immediately [ More … ]
The Egyptian authorities are attempting to normalize human rights violations by passing a series of laws to “legalize” their escalating crackdown on freedom of expression, association and assembly, said Amnesty International, six years since recently [ More … ]
Amnesty International warned Wednesday that dozens of rights activists in Egypt have been put in “grave danger” by email phishing attacks that it says appear to be government orchestrated. “Dozens of Egyptian human rights defenders [ More … ]
Yellow vests have become the symbol of an ongoing protest movement in France Rights group Amnesty International called Monday for the release of an Egyptian lawyer arrested after posing in a photo wearing a yellow [ More … ]
Rights group calls Egypt an ‘open-air prison’ for critics and calls on the Egyptian government to release people held for peacefully expressing opinions. In a new campaign launched by Amnesty International on Thursday, titled Egypt, [ More … ]
Egyptian Children face shocking violations including torture and enforced disappearance The Egyptian authorities have committed shocking violations against children since 2013, with at least six tortured in custody and 12 subjected to enforced disappearances since [ More … ]
Amnesty International says Egyptian authorities have arrested 19 rights lawyers and activists, including eight women, as part of the country’s ongoing crackdown on civil society. The London-based advocacy group says in a Thursday statement that [ More … ]
Egypt’s armed forces have used internationally outlawed cluster bombs, made in the United States, in operations aimed at crushing Islamic extremists in northern Sinai, Amnesty International said Wednesday. The use of such weapons, if confirmed, [ More … ]
Iran sent five planes of food to Qatar days after Gulf countries cut off air and other transport links to the emirate. Iran sent five planes of food to Qatar, Iran’s national carrier confirmed on [ More … ]
Proposed law gives amnesty to businessmen accused of corruption under ousted president Ben Ali. More than 2,000 Tunisians marched in the country’s capital protesting a proposed amnesty bill that would see businessmen accused of corruption [ More … ]
Bin Ghaith’s last tweets were widely critical of governments across the Arab world A prominent academic was sentenced by a UAE court to 10 years in prison over a series of tweets idely critical of [ More … ]
Human rights NGO Amnesty International expressed alarm on Wednesday over the health condition of Muhammad al-Qiq, a Palestinian prisoner on his second prominent hunger strike. Amnesty said that it had been informed that al-Qiq had [ More … ]
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