Several Egyptian and international human rights organisations have recently reported numerous suicide attempts and hunger strikes among detainees. Human rights groups said on Monday that collective punishment is taking place at Egypt’s Badr prison complex, [ More … ]
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) said its lawyers heard for the first time Monday the testimonies and pleas of political prisoners from Badr 3 prison, after weeks of complete absence of any news [ More … ]
Human rights organizations say the United Nations must adopt a resolution on the dire human rights situation in Egypt. Reactions have continued to the leaked message from prisoners at Badr-3 Prison, which highlighted the violations [ More … ]
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 … ]
The founder and former CEO of Egypt’s Juhayna Food Industries (JUFO.CA) and his son have been released after about two years in detention, reported Reuters. Safwan Thabet and his son, Seifeldin, were released from prison [ More … ]
Ten months after emergence of a footage showing Egyptian police seemingly torturing detainees in a Cairo police station, 22 people have now been handed long prison sentences—not for engaging in torture, but for exposing it. [ 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 … ]
Amnesty castigated the ‘inhuman conditions’ at Egypt’s new jail, Badr 3 Prison, where relatives, lawyers of inmates at Badr 3 facility report insufficient food, clothing and books, inadequate medical care, bans on family visits Badr [ More … ]
A Saudi court issues prison sentences from ten to eighteen years to ten Nubian Egyptians who were arrested after holding a community event in 2019 Saudi Arabia’s Specialized Criminal Court on 10 October handed prison [ More … ]
A Saudi court has given a woman 45 years in prison for social media posts, a watchdog said, in latest example of crackdown on women activists, following a visit by US President Joe Biden to [ More … ]
A new political prisoner has died in prison due to the inhumane conditions of detention place in Minya El-Qamh, Sharqia, according to Committee for Justice. The Committee for Justice human rights organization monitored on Thursday, [ More … ]
Sami Mohamed Suleiman, 57, a former army officer, died in an Egyptian prison this week after six years in pre-trial detention according to ENHR A former Egyptian army colonel died in prison on Saturday after [ More … ]
A famous Azhar preacher , known for criticizing the regime of Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has been given 15 years in prison for trumped up charges The Cairo Criminal Court Thursday sentenced Egyptian A-Azhar University Professor [ More … ]
Activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, a British-Egyptian political prisoner, has been on hunger strike for over 60 days in protest against his detention and deprivation of rights in prison Although Alaa Abdel Fattah’s detention conditions have [ More … ]
An Egyptian journalist and presenter for Al-Jazeera has been sentenced to 15 years in absentia for hosting former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh. Egyptian journalist and news presenter at Al-Jazeera Ahmed Taha was accused [ More … ]
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