An Egyptian prisoner has died in Zagazig Police Station due to the bad conditions of his detention and lack of adequate medical care. A detainee has died in Egypt’s Zagazig Police Station after deterioration of [ More … ]
Kuwaiti foreign ministry has called on Egypt to investigate an “assault” on a number of Kuwaiti students by security personnel at a mall in Alexandria. Kuwait’s ministry of foreign affairs called on Sunday for the [ More … ]
At least four people have been killed and 12 others wounded in an attack on a police checkpoint in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, according to medics and security sources. The incident took place [ More … ]
Sexual assault of detainee Omar Mohamed Ali in the notorious Badr Prison has been denounced by six Egyptian human rights organizations. The Aassociation for Freedom of Thought and Expression, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights [ More … ]
The United Nations says it is investigating reportedly misconduct by Egyptian police officers providing security at this year’s international climate talks. This follows accusations that attendees of events at the German pavilion for the COP27 [ More … ]
In the absence of the bare minimum of the rule of law and respect for human rights The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) decides to suspend its activities, ANHRI said in a statement [ More … ]
Five human rights organizations have new reports about the human rights situation in Egypt, where they have documented the continued violations of fundamental rights in Egypt under Sisi, reported the Committee for Justice . Amnesty [ More … ]
An 18-year-old girl abducted by police and forcibly disappeared for days only for being sister of Abdel Rahman al Shuwaikh, the detainee that has reportedly been sextually assaulted by the police. After Abdel Rahman al [ More … ]
Owais al-Rawi was shot in the head as he confronted a police officer who slapped his father during a home raid The Egyptian city of Luxor has turned into a militarized area, with heavily armored [ More … ]
Egypt has maintained its policy of detaining journalists on charges of spreading ‘false news’. The country has already been named the third worst jailer of journalists by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Egyptian authorities detained [ More … ]
Egypt police raided the houses of two uncles of an Egyptian-American activist who has recently sued a former Egyptian prime minister in U.S. court, accusing him of crimes against humanity, an international rights group said [ More … ]
The police raid came a day after Mada Masr editor Shady Zalat was arrested by Egyptian security forces. Egyptian security forces raided the office of what is widely described as the country’s last independent news [ More … ]
Ten people have been killed in Basra as Iraqi security forces continued their repression of anti-corruption protests, with Iraq’s foremost Shia cleric saying the government must meet protesters’ demands. Police and medical sources say at [ More … ]
Iraqi Human Rights Commission says those killed appeared to have died after being hit by tear gas canisters At least two demonstrators were killed in Baghdad on Friday morning as Iraq’s highest religious authority urged [ More … ]
Human Rights Watch calls for ‘immediate release’ of those arrested in protests demanding president’s resignation Egyptian security forces clashed with hundreds of anti-government protesters in the seaport city of Suez on Saturday, firing tear gas [ More … ]
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