Several Nobel laureates for Literature have urged world leaders to raise human rights issues and call for release of the political prisoners in Egypt, as they visit Egypt for the COP27 climate change conference to [ More … ]
Amid Egyptian government’s tight restrictions on assembly and free speech, UN annual conference on climate change is set to be hosted in Sharm El Sheikh next month Well-known Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg has joined [ More … ]
Blogger Abdelrahman “Mocha” Tarek, translator Kholoud Saied, accountant Alaa Essam, former MP Mohamed Mohie Eddin, and Hussein Khamis have been released from the pretrial detention. However, thousands of political prisoners are still suffering behind bars. [ More … ]
The Egyptian political prisoners facing charges of ‘affiliation with a terrorist organization’ will not be included in the presidential pardon, according to a member of the Presidential Pardon Committee. A member from Egypt’s Presidential Pardon [ More … ]
Eight Egyptian rights organizations have issued several recommendations aimed to ensure that the regime’s supposed new approach to political prisoners would offer positive results rather than a mere show. Eight leading Egyptian human rights organizations on [ More … ]
In a meeting with the regime’s National Council for Human Rights, representatives from some political parties have called on the government to release political prisoners, reform pretrial detention practices, and protect rights to free speech [ More … ]
Late President Anwar Sadat’s nephew, Mohamed Sadat, seems to have recently become an unofficial negotiator on behalf of Egypt’s political prisoners, but seemingly with little success opportunities. Recently a delegation was sent by Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi [ More … ]
International community must put pressure on Egypt to prevent prison deaths, warns Amnesty International A decade after the uprising that overturned politics in Egypt, political prisoners are being targeted inside the country’s overcrowded prison system. [ More … ]
Egypt’s execution of 23 detainees, 15 of whom were political prisoners, over the weekend has ignited condemnation online. For years, rights groups have lamented Egypt’s judicial system which metes out death sentences in mass trials [ More … ]
One more Egyptian political detainee died in the notorious Scorpion prison Wednesday, 3 September, as a result of medical negligence, his family and human rights advocates said on Facebook. Ahmed Abdelnabi, 63, suffered from “multiple [ 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 … ]
On Tuesday 17-year-old Alaa Yasser Farouk told lawyers that whilst detained she heard officers electrocuting her father and then was threatened with torture if she did not confess to joining and funding the Muslim Brotherhood. [ More … ]
Human rights activists on Thursday criticized a United Nations decision to hold a conference in Cairo on torture with an Egyptian state organization. “It’s illogical for a country where torture is systematic to host a [ More … ]
The “Void Egypt Prisons” campaign has attracted more than 65,000 votes online in solidarity with political prisoners, demanding their release, three days after its launch. The number of signatories, on Wednesday, approached 70 thousand. The [ More … ]
While there may be ” a special place for hell” for those who backed Brexit without a plan, regimes that execute people after fundamentally flawed trials get their own summit, wrote Rhys Davies. Just a [ More … ]
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