Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s security forces have killed 17 pro-Muslim Brotherhood persons in the latest incident of extra judicial killing. The security forces claimed that the people killed were involved in a car bomb near the [ More … ]
Egypt is now under the hand of a new authoritarian leader with unprecedented power. This what was concluded in a special report released by Reuters titled: “How Egypt’s President Tightened his Grip.” This spring, as [ More … ]
The Egyptian regime has been subjecting its opponents to enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killing since Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi led a military coup against Egypt’s first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi in 2013. The Egyptian Coordination for [ More … ]
Human Rights Watch urged suspension of military aid to Egypt after video leaked by an opposition channel that showed troops appearing to carry out cold-blooded executions of as many as eight detainees in the northern Sinai [ More … ]
Egypt’s Interior Ministry said in a statement that it killed Hassan Mohamed Galal Mustafa, a student at Al-Azhar University when they were attempting to arrest him,while the student was forcibly disappeared by security forces 3 months ago, [ More … ]
A Palestinian rights group slammed on Wednesday the killing of a Palestinian teen by Israeli forces earlier this week, calling the case an “extrajudicial killing” and demanding that Israeli authorities open an investigation into the [ More … ]
Days after al-Arish residents threatened a civil disobedience to protest the extrajudicial Killing of youths by the Egyptian security forces, news were circulated on the social media about the disappearance of three police officers. The [ More … ]
Egyptians in al-Arish, a city in northern Sinai, are threatening civil disobedience to protest against the extrajudicial killing of 10 youths by security forces. Two days ago, Al-Arish residents met and issued a statement demanding the [ More … ]
The Egyptian rights group Al-Nadeem Center stated that it has documented extrajudicial killings by security forces based on print, online and social media reports. Al-Nadeem Center said that the extrajudicial killings have reached 754 people [ More … ]
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