An Egyptian human rights group says that during more than nine months, Egyptian authorities renewed the pre-trial detention of over 20,000 people. The Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) has announced that it recorded that [ More … ]
Amr Imam is a human rights defender and lawyer who was arrested at his home in Maadi, Cairo, by the police on 16 October 2019. Amr’s arrest came after the lawyer announced his intention to [ More … ]
The New York Times has analyzed handwritten lists of names to track the thousands of people trapped in a system where detention can be renewed indefinitely, making a mockery of the legal limits. A newly [ More … ]
The Egyptian authorities on 6 October 2021 renewed the pre-trial detention of Ola Al-Qaradawi for a period of 45 days. The daughter of prominent Islamic scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi has already been detained for four [ More … ]
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