An Egyptian military court has acquitted the officer at the army’s Air Force, who had been accused of assaulting the medical staff at Quesna Central Hospital in Menoufia Governorate, according to Ahmed Hamad, the family’s [ More … ]
Kuwaiti foreign ministry has called on Egypt to investigate an “assault” on a number of Kuwaiti students by security personnel at a mall in Alexandria. Kuwait’s ministry of foreign affairs called on Sunday for the [ More … ]
Sexual assault of detainee Omar Mohamed Ali in the notorious Badr Prison has been denounced by six Egyptian human rights organizations. The Aassociation for Freedom of Thought and Expression, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights [ More … ]
A well-known YouTuber has released a live broadcast on his Facebook page, documenting the assault on him by a police officer, where the footage immediately had over ten million views. YouTuber and comic content creator [ More … ]
Former Egyptian presidential candidate Dr. Abdel Moneim Aboul-Fotouh has been subjected to a “barbaric” assault by prison guards in his cell at the notorious Tora prison complex, according to his family. Aboul-Fotouh, 71, a leader [ More … ]
Death toll of civilians, including children and women is escalating in Gaza, amid the continued Israeli bombardment of buildings and infrastructure utilities in the Strip Amid mounting international calls for a ceasefire, Israel has continued [ More … ]
Amnesty International criticized the Egyptian authorities for pushing through new media and cybercrime laws that would give the state near-total control over print, online and broadcast media. The London-based organization called the Egyptian parliament to [ More … ]
Egyptian former anti-corruption chief Hisham Genena will face military trial after saying a presidential candidate he supported had documents damning to state officials, his lawyer said on Thursday. He will stand trial on April 16 [ More … ]
Three Palestinian security guards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem were assaulted and detained by Israeli police on Wednesday, as hundreds of right-wing Israelis and settlers took to [ More … ]
As some 1,500 Palestinian prisoners entered the 11th day of the mass “Freedom and Dignity” hunger strike, Israeli Prison Service (IPS) forces on Thursday attacked two hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners being held in southern Israel’s Ashkelon [ More … ]
An Israeli police officer physically assaulted and injured several Palestinians in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Wadi Joz on Thursday morning, a video filmed by an eye witness showed. The video shows a plainclothes [ More … ]
In the wake of a large-scale raid Sunday night in occupied East Jerusalem that targeted the families of Palestinians who were either slain or incarcerated after carrying out or allegedly carrying out attacks, one of [ More … ]
Lawyer Mohamed Hanafi, who is defending Ahmed Abdallah – the board chairman of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedom (ECRF) and the legal adviser of the family of Jiulio Regeni, who was murdered and [ More … ]
A new accident against Christian citizens in al-Minya province. Bishop Macarious of the southern Minya governorate says the mob attacked the families of two priests with knives and batons in the village of Tahna al-Gabal [ More … ]
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