Two leading human rights groups have accused Egyptian authorities of failing to conduct an independent, effective, and transparent investigation into the death of an Egyptian economist in custody. Meanwhile, a famous Youtuber, Mohamed Anis, has [ More … ]
A prominent Egyptian journalist, Mohamed Monir, who had been jailed on charges of broadcasting false news died of COVID-19 on Monday, raising fears that the coronavirus may be spreading undetected in Egypt’s notoriously crowded prisons. [ More … ]
Wael Shalaby, the former Secretary-General of Egypt’s State Council committed suicide while in custody on Monday, according to judicial source at the State Security Prosecution. Shalaby had been arrested on Sunday and given a 44-day [ More … ]
Egypt’s judiciary system keeps surprising the world as it accused a former minister in the government of Dr. Hesham Qandil during the era of President Mohamed Morsi while he has been in custody since 2014. The judicial [ More … ]
Three journalists,who were conducting street interviews in downtown Cairo, were detained by Egyptian police forces, reported ABC News. The journalists were conducting interviews on Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s latest request for the Egyptians to donate the changes [ More … ]
A new Regeni was found dead in Cairo after being arrested by the Egyptian police forces. The body of medical student Ahmed Medhat appeared at Cairo’s main morgue shortly after his arrest by the police [ More … ]
The Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms ECRF, a non governmental rights group, released a report on enforced disappearance covering the period from the beginning of January 2016 to the end of June. The Egyptian [ More … ]
Dr. Tarek El Ghandour, a dermatologist professor at Ain Shams University and a leading figure of the Freedom and Justice party, was sentenced by the criminal court to 5 years in prison on December 14, [ More … ]
An Egyptian human rights organization has documented 26,207 detainment incidents from the Egyptian security institutions in 18 months, as reported by the New Khalij. This was mentioned in a report on the number of detainees and [ 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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