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Egypt: Rights Watchdog calls for reintegration of released political prisoners

March 23, 2023 MEO Staff

EFHR denounces Egyptian authorities’ failure to properly compensate and reintegrate released political prisoners The Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) on Wednesday denounced Egyptian authorities’ failure to properly compensate and reintegrate released political prisoners in [ More … ]

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Egypt: A leaked message from Badr-3 Prison highlights “brutal” abuses

February 24, 2023 MEO Staff

A message leaked from the Badr-3 Prison – formerly “Al-Aqrab” (Scorpion) – and circulated by Egyptian rights organizations and activists, projects human rights “brutal” violations and abuses in Egyptian prisons.  The message signed by Badr-3 [ More … ]

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Egypt:  Dialogue to start in a “few weeks” despite failure to meet demands for release of political prisoners

October 3, 2022 MEO Staff

Egypt’s national dialogue is due to begin in a “few weeks”, the dialogue coordinator said, even as demands for the release of political prisoners go unheeded. According to Youm7, the National Dialogue Coordinator Diaa Rashwan [ More … ]

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Egypt: HR coalition on Cop27 issues petition addressing country’s grave rights situation

September 28, 2022 MEO Staff

Ahead of COP27, the Egyptian human rights coalition on Cop27 calls for opening civic space and releasing everyone arbitrarily detained in Egypt. In the run-up to COP27 Sharm El Sheikh, the Egyptian human rights coalition [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

7 political prisoners executed in Egypt, 81 executed in KSA in one day

March 12, 2022 MEO Staff

Seven people in Egypt and eighty one people in in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) have reportedly been all executed, based on political charges and others. The We Record human rights organization has revealed [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt: Inmates reportedly ‘trained’ to talk about prison conditions before Sisi, with ‘pardon’ promises

September 20, 2021 MEO Staff

Several “Tora” prisoners have been trained to talk about prison conditions before Sisi, with promises to include them in a presidential pardon list, reported Mada Masr. According to Mada Masr, one of the lawyers, who [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

U.S. lawmakers urge Egypt’s Sisi to release prisoners, report

October 19, 2020 MEO Staff

A recent letter reviewed by The Washington Post, US lawmakers signal Sisi’s rights violation ‘will not be tolerated’ if Biden wins the presidency. US lawmakers are calling on Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to release political [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egyptian prisoners start mass hunger strike due to abusive treatment

October 15, 2020 MEO Staff

Prisoners at Tora Istiqbal Prison are demanding putting an end to harsh disciplinary measures, according to rights groups Detainees at one of Egypt’s most notorious prisons have gone on hunger strike in protest against ill-treatment, [ More … ]

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Egypt: Prisoners go on hunger strike in protest at inmate’s death

September 8, 2020 MEO Staff

Prisoners in Egypt’s notorious high-security Aqrab (Scorpion) Prison have gone on hunger strike in protest at the death of a fellow inmate as a result of medical negligence. Dr. Amro Abou Khalil, a psychiatrist held [ More … ]

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Calls for releasing Egypt prisoners amid concerns over spread of COVID-19

March 18, 2020 MEO Staff

With the increasing spread of the coronavirus over the world, Egyptian political and human rights activists launched a campaign titled, “Release the prisoners” The campaign demanded the Egyptian authorities to release the detainees due to [ More … ]

Iran Latest News

Iran releases 85,000 prisoners in effort to combat coronavirus

March 17, 2020 MEO Staff

An Iranian judiciary spokesperson said tens of thousands of prisoners, including political prisoners, had been releasedIran has released around 85,000 prisoners, including political prisoners, from its jails to combat the spread of coronavirus, a judicial [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Stunned Silence Followed Trump’s G-7 Outburst: “Where is My Favorite Dictator?”

September 14, 2019 Ahmed Rashed

President Donald Trump shocked onlookers at the G7 meeting when he praised the president of Egypt as a dictator. “Inside a room of the ornately decorated Hotel du Palais during last month’s Group of Seven [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt prisoners’ families: ‘Humans have no value here’ – Report

August 4, 2019 MEO Staff

Security forces detained Lotfy Ibrahim, a young construction worker, as he left a mosque near his home on the Nile Delta in the spring of 2015. When his family finally saw him again nearly three [ More … ]

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Egypt: 4 political prisoners executed after grossly unfair military trial

January 2, 2018 MEO Staff

The hangings came days after the largest mass execution in recent Egyptian memory Egyptian prison authorities executed five inmates on Tuesday. The prisoners had been sentenced to death, four of them allegedly over a bombing [ More … ]

Israel Latest News

Knesset approves bill to cut tax transfer to PA over prisoners compensation program

June 15, 2017 MEO Staff

Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, moved forward on Wednesday with a bill that would see the Israeli government cease to transfer an estimated 1 billion shekels ($280 million) per year to the Palestinian Authority (PA) over [ More … ]

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