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Egypt Latest News

Egypt: ‘My brother just had his last glass of water in prison… He can still be saved’, Sanaa Seif says

November 7, 2022 MEO Staff

Alaa’s sister Mona Seif tweeted that if Egypt’s Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak “don’t resolve this he will die.” As Abdel Fattah’s condition has worsened over the past month, pressure [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt: Alaa Abdel Fattah’s mother expresses fears over his lasting hunger strike in prison

May 13, 2022 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt: Alaa Abdel Fattah gains UK citizenship on 10th. Day of Hunger Strike in Sisi’s prisons

April 12, 2022 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt: Jailed army officers go on hunger strike

November 30, 2021 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egyptian prisoners start mass hunger strike due to abusive treatment

October 15, 2020 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt: Prisoners go on hunger strike in protest at inmate’s death

September 8, 2020 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

US Senators call on Trump to issue ‘immediate’ sanctions after American citizen dies in Egypt jail

January 17, 2020 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

American Held in Egypt Prison Dies After a Hunger Strike

January 14, 2020 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Aisha Al-Shater transferred to prison hospital after deterioration of health

September 6, 2019 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Amnesty Calls on Egypt to End Abuses Against Political Prisoners

August 1, 2019 Ahmed Rashed

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 … ]

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Mass hunger strike at al-Aqrab prison over denial of family visits and dire conditions

July 31, 2019 MEO Staff

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 … ]

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80% of the Detainees in Scorpion’s Prison on Hunger Strike

November 3, 2017 Ahmed Rashed

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 … ]

Palestine Latest News

Abbas accuses Fatah members of conspiring against him over recent prisoner hunger strike

June 3, 2017 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Israel Latest News

After 40 days, Palestinians suspend mass hunger strike in Israeli prisons

May 28, 2017 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Palestine Latest News

Abbas calls on US to mediate hunger strike

May 26, 2017 MEO Staff

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 … ]

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