Egyptian writer and Sisi critic Amin El-Mahdi died a few days after he was released from pretrial detention, which raised questions among Egyptian activists on the causes of his death. Amin El-Mahdi was first imprisoned [ More … ]
The Human Rights Watch has most recently called for urgently ending detention and torture of children, especially in light of the outbreak of coronavirus in the country, with the risk of its spread among prisoners. [ More … ]
Egyptian politician, Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, reportedly went into a coma in detention after allegedly being attacked by jailers Saturday. Abu Ismail’s medical condition was resulting from being “attacked and assaulted by jailers” in Egypt’s [ More … ]
On November 3, the World Youth Forum(WYF) took place for the second consecutive year in Sharm el-Sheikh under the patronage of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. As a specially selected group of Egyptian youth was welcomed in [ 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 … ]
Crispin Blunt MP, Lord Edward Faulks QC, and Dr. Paul Williams MP have released a report with findings into the detention of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi. The report was published by the Independent, British [ More … ]
The UK Detention Review Panel (DRP) has issued its official report on the detention conditions of Dr. Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president who was overthrown by the military in 2013. The UK Detention [ More … ]
Human Rights Watch sharply criticized Egyptian authorities on Monday for a series of “arbitrary” arrests of political opponents of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi ahead of next month’s presidential election, which the watchdog considers “unfair”, reported Associated Press. [ More … ]
Egyptian police on Tuesday took former anti-corruption chief Hisham Genena, who had been helping run the election campaign of a challenger to Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, to the military prosecutor’s office, his family said. Genena had [ More … ]
The former Egyptian army chief-of-staff General Sami Anan, who was detained by the Egyptian authorities on 23 January, is being held at a military prison in Cairo, according to his lawyer on Saturday. For six days [ More … ]
UAE says Abdullah left country ‘without any obstruction,’ provides no details on his destination The United Arab Emirates said on Sunday that an exiled member of Qatar’s ruling family who had appeared in a video [ More … ]
Egypt summoned several western ambassadors in protest against a statement criticizing the country’s detention of a human rights lawyer who was helping investigate the case of a murdered Giulio Regeni, the Italian student, according to [ More … ]
Sumaya Maher whereabouts is still unknown since her abduction by the Egyptian security forces on October 17,2017. Sumaya is the daughter of the former member in the Shura council Maher Khozaima. She has a bachelor [ More … ]
Several Palestinians suffered from severe tear gas inhalation when clashes broke out with Israeli forces Wednesday afternoon, as students of Birzeit University staged a protest against the detention of at least six fellow students by [ More … ]
Two Palestinian teenagers held in Israel’s Ofer detention center have been shot, abused, and tortured during their detention and interrogation by Israeli authorities, according to a statement released Tuesday by the Palestinian Committee for Prisoners’ [ More … ]
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