Giulio Regeni, an Italian student tortured and murdered in Cairo in 2016, was ensnared in a “spider’s web” spun by the Egyptian security services in the weeks leading up to his death, said Rome prosecutors. [ More … ]
A detainee being held at a police station in Giza governorate was beaten to death last week , reports Masrawy. The Interior Ministry has denied Karim Al-Khawaja, 45, died at the hands of police and instead [ More … ]
Al-Sisi’s regime executed nine men for killing Egypt’s top prosecutor, a prison source and a lawyer said on Wednesday. The men were among a group of 28 who were sentenced to death in the case [ 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 … ]
Prominent lawyer Hoda Abdelmonem and tens of others have gone missing for two weeks, prompting fears for their safety It has been two weeks since Hoda Abdelmonem, a prominent human rights lawyer, went missing in [ More … ]
The Egyptian authorities on Thursday detained nine people, including seven women, according to sources close to the banned Muslim Brotherhood group. Several Brotherhood sources told Anadolu Agency that the nine had been detained from their [ More … ]
Surveillance footage handed over to Rome by Egyptian authorities for an investigation into the torture murder of an Italian researcher in Cairo contains “overwritten and unclear material”. Egyptian judicial sources said that the CCTV footage [ More … ]
The Egyptian authorities arrested the parents of a former university student, Anas Al-Mahdi, who was killed by the police in 2015. “My parents have been arrested by the Egyptian police,” Al-Mahdi’s sister, Hind, wrote on [ More … ]
The BBC published last week a short documentary and report highlighting what it said were cases of enforced disappearances and torture carried out by security forces since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power in 2014. [ More … ]
The European Parliament issued a resolution on executions in Egypt on 8 February, expressing concerns that “strict procedures are in place within the country’s legal system in cases where the death penalty is applicable.” The European [ 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 … ]
For the first time in six months, Egyptians lived for a few days outside of a state of emergency this month. And the country’s Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) ruled that ordinary courts — not military [ More … ]
The Human Rights Watch said today that the French government should ensure that “human rights are central to its relationship with Egypt.” The HRW urged that France should stop ignoring serious abuses, including Egyptian security services’ [ More … ]
On Tuesday, the 24th of October, French President Emmanuel Macron will meet Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt, as part of his official visit to Paris from October 23 to 25 this month. The French presidency said [ More … ]
An Egyptian human rights organization stated on Sunday that 254 people have “forcibly disappeared” in the country over the past six months. While the Egyptian authorities repeatedly deny the cases of “enforced disappearance” in the [ More … ]
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