Prominent Egyptian activist Sanaa Seif sister of imprisoned activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has been abducted outside the prosecutor general’s office in Cairo, according to a relative. Seif had been visiting the building to lodge an [ More … ]
Mada Masr Editor-in-chief Lina Attalah has been ordered released on LE 2,000 bail by the Maadi prosecution. She remains in police custody while her release is processed. Lina Attalah was detained after interviewing the mother [ More … ]
Under pressure from the Trump administration, Egypt released Reem Desouky, an art teacher from who was jailed over a Facebook page critical of Sisi. A Pennsylvania teacher, held in an Egyptian prison for nearly 10 [ More … ]
Shady Habash had been in prison for more than two years in pre-trial detention! The Egyptian filmmaker imprisoned without trial for more than two years for making a music video that mocked Sisi has died at [ More … ]
Egypt added on Saturday 13 people, including former lawmaker Zyad al-Elaimy, on the country’s “terrorism list” for collaborating with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood! Hundreds of people have been added to Egypt’s terrorism list in recent [ More … ]
A Saudi citizen Abdul Rahim al-Hwaiti was allegedly shot dead after he refused to give up his property for a Red Sea mega-project. A Saudi citizen who refused government orders to give up his home [ More … ]
Gender & Rights Researcher Patrick George Zaki, arrested on arrival at Cairo airport, tortured and sent to Public Prosecution after 24 hours of incommunicado detention according to EIPR Early on the morning of Friday, February [ More … ]
The friends and family of prisoners in Egypt have launched a social media campaign to raise awareness of the dire conditions inside Egypt’s prisons, according to MEMO Under a number of hashtags including the Arabic for [ More … ]
Detainees of the Scorpion Prison continue to be subjected to one of the most brutal ways of slow death, where the prison authority deprives them of their basic rights and exposes them to torture and [ More … ]
Parliament to meet on Sunday to decide on Iraqi PM’s fate amid continuing anti-government protests. Iraqi PM resignation would only be ‘first step’, protesters say Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi submitted his resignation to [ More … ]
Aisha al-Shater has been held in dire conditions in prison since her arrest last year, according to rights groups Aisha Shater, an Egyptian activist and daughter of senior Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat al-Shater, could die in prison [ More … ]
Egypt has faced strong criticism at a United Nations review of its rights record, with diplomats voicing alarm over detention conditions and shrinking freedoms in the country recently rocked by mass protests. The United States and other Western [ More … ]
First, democratically-elected President Mohammed Morsi died while standing trial for charges legal observers said were politically motivated. An independent panel of United Nations experts has said the death of former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi in [ More … ]
Under Al-#Sisi’s 7-year war on terror in Sinai! 14 villages in Egypt’s Sinai have been “wiped off the map”!. “a 50-KM area from the border erased! “Army didn’t leave either animal, tree, bird or human! [ More … ]
An Egyptian Islamist father and his son have been detained unlawfully since 2013 as part of the political persecution of ex-aides to deposed president Mohamed Morsi, and should be freed immediately and compensated, UN human [ More … ]
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