Egyptian rights groups have denounced the referral of Bologna University post-graduate student and researcher to emergency court Ten Egyptian human rights organizations on Tuesday denounced the State Security Prosecution’s decision to refer Patrick George Zaki, [ More … ]
The Biden administration is releasing nearly $200 million in military aid to Egypt but will hold back millions more over human rights concerns, the State Department said Tuesday in an announcement quickly criticized by rights [ More … ]
This move from the Biden administration is a compromise that may disappoint some activists but nonetheless is arguably more human-rights-friendly than in the past. The Biden administration has decided it will hold back some — [ More … ]
On Sept. 18, 2019, Egypt’s Interior Ministry issued a six-line statement announcing that security forces had killed nine elements of the Brotherhood in two “hideouts” in and near Cairo. The Muslim Brotherhood, one of Egypt’s [ More … ]
A human rights organization said yesterday that it was denied visit to the political prisoner Mohamed Ibrahim, known as “Oxygen” after his attempted suicide The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) on August 23 [ More … ]
The Egyptian embassy in the US has tweeted a statement connecting human rights defenders who communicate with members of US Congress on abuses committed by the Egyptian regime with terror organizations. Last year Joe Biden [ More … ]
The group was detained in March 2018 during a wave of arrests by Saudi authorities on a group of long-term Palestinian and Jordanian residents in the kingdom on alleged links with an unnamed “terrorist” group, [ More … ]
Monday June 14, 2021, Egypt’s Court of Cassation upheld death sentences for 12 protestors, including prominent Muslim Brotherhood leaders, concluding a trial linked to a 2013 mass killing by security forces of President Morsi supporters [ More … ]
Rights group urges UK to probe UAE activist’s death near London A US-based advocacy group, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), has called on United Kingdom authorities to investigate the circumstances of a prominent [ More … ]
Egypt’s al-Sisi should immediately commute the death sentences for 12 protestors, including prominent Muslim Brotherhood leaders who had been convicted in a grossly unfair mass trial for participation in the 2013 Rab’a sit-in that ended with security [ More … ]
A group of expatriate Egyptian politicians and political activists are urging the US, UN and multinational bodies in Europe and Africa to pressure the Egyptian government to stop the execution of a dozen members of [ More … ]
Israel’s move to shut down a key healthcare body in the occupied territories will have “catastrophic consequences” for Palestinians in need of medical attention, global rights group Amnesty International warned. Israeli army forces raided the [ More … ]
Several Palestinians killed in new wave of Israeli raids on Gaza as Benjamin Netanyahu vows to continue attacks ‘as long as necessary’!! Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip entered its seventh consecutive day with air [ More … ]
France is selling another 30 Rafale fighter jets to Egypt in a deal condemned last Tuesday by rights advocates, including the French wife of a jailed activist. The deal, confirmed separately by both countries, will [ More … ]
Five leading Egyptian human rights organizations yesterday announced a list of seven necessary, clear, and urgent measures to stop the unprecedented erosion of human rights that Egypt has witnessed over the past years. The five [ More … ]
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