Egyptian Interior Minister Mahmoud Tawfik has decided to establish 8 new central prisons in 4 governorates: Fayoum, Aswan, Kafr El-Sheikh and Gharbia. The first decree No. 1120 of 2021 stipulated the establishment of two central [ More … ]
Morocco’s Ministry of Interior has been tightening its stranglehold on Islamist organizations, reported the daily newspaper Assabah on Tuesday. The ministry’s representatives have been instructed to strictly surveil various Islamist groups, including the Movement of [ More … ]
The Constitutional Court declared the unconstitutionality of Article 10 of the Protest Law on Saturday. This article would give the Ministry of Interior the right to ban protests. 3 years after Egypt’s Protest Law: 37,000 [ More … ]
By: Dr. Basheer Mousa Nafi* Shortly before eleven pm on July 15, Turkey witnessed the beginning of land and air military movements, which later turned out to be a coup attempt. Given the number of [ More … ]
Enforced Disappearance has become an obvious phenomenon in Egypt. Human Rights organizations have documented many cases where activists were abducted by the Egyptian security forces. Even foreigners were targeted in Egypt. On the fifth anniversary [ More … ]
Two years have passed since al-Sisi took power after a military coup in 2013 against the first democratically elected president Mohammed Morsi. He started his third year in the presidency by organizing a Ramadan iftar (fast-breaking) [ More … ]
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