Mother of the renowned Egyptian activist who has recently gained British citizenship expresses fears that she may not see him alive again due to his continued hunger strike over the dire prison conditions. The mother [ More … ]
The family of imprisoned activist Alaa Abdel Fattah announced on Monday, 11 April, 2022, that he has gained British citizenship, part of an effort to help him “find some way out of this impossible ordeal.” Also, The [ More … ]
The imprisoned military officers have reportedly announced going on a hunger strike to protest ill-treatment. The families of the imprisoned army officers announced Tuesday that their sons had started an open hunger strike for several [ More … ]
Prisoners at Tora Istiqbal Prison are demanding putting an end to harsh disciplinary measures, according to rights groups Detainees at one of Egypt’s most notorious prisons have gone on hunger strike in protest against ill-treatment, [ More … ]
Prisoners in Egypt’s notorious high-security Aqrab (Scorpion) Prison have gone on hunger strike in protest at the death of a fellow inmate as a result of medical negligence. Dr. Amro Abou Khalil, a psychiatrist held [ More … ]
Mustafa Kassem, American citizen who had been held in Egyptian prison for past five years, died on Monday after series of hunger strikes Two US Senators called on President Donald Trump to “immediately” sanction Egypt [ More … ]
Moustafa Kassem, detained in Cairo in 2013 and suffering from serious medical problems, had protested his innocence. An American imprisoned in Egypt for six years on what he insisted were false charges, and whose case [ More … ]
Aisha Khairat Al-Shater has been transferred to Al-Qanater Prison hospital after her health deteriorated in the one-meter square cell in which she is being held in solitary confinement. The daughter of the deputy leader of [ More … ]
Amnesty International has censured the “harsh and inhumane conditions” of political prisoners in Egypt, calling on the African country’s authorities to immediately end the rights abuses of the detainees there. The international rights group urged [ More … ]
The Egyptian authorities must immediately end cruel and inhumane detention conditions and allow regular family visits at al-Aqrab maximum security prison in Tora where approximately 130 detainees have gone on a mass hunger strike for [ More … ]
A rights group has stated that Some 80 % of detainees held in Egypt’s Al-Aqrab (Scorpion) Prison began a hunger strike in September to protest human rights violations against them. In a statement on its [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has accused fellow Fatah members of using a recent prisoner hunger strike to ‘conspire against him’ over the recent hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has accused Fatah [ More … ]
Hundreds of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons suspended a 40-day mass hunger strike during dawn hours on Saturday, after reaching an agreement with the Israel Prison Service (IPS) that reinstated the prisoners’ family visitation sessions [ More … ]
Hundreds of the prisoners have been refusing food since April 17 over conditions for about 6,500 Palestinian inmates. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has asked the United States to help end a weeks-long hunger strike by [ More … ]
Head of Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs Issa Qaraqe released a statement Wednesday evening, saying that all hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners have been transferred to three Israeli prisons “due to their proximity to Israeli hospitals.” Qaraqe [ More … ]
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