Activists decry a $1.2bn arms sale of two frigates to Egypt even the 2016 murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni near Cairo remains unresolved. Meanwhile, Regeni’s family feels ‘betrayed’ by Italy government over the move [ More … ]
Gender & Rights Researcher Patrick George Zaki, arrested on arrival at Cairo airport, tortured and sent to Public Prosecution after 24 hours of incommunicado detention according to EIPR Early on the morning of Friday, February [ More … ]
Giulio Regeni, an Italian student tortured and murdered in Cairo in 2016, was ensnared in a “spider’s web” spun by the Egyptian security services in the weeks leading up to his death, said Rome prosecutors. [ More … ]
Egypt has been revealed as the tenth highest importer of arms, ammunitions and security information systems from Italy for 2018, according to a document issued by the Italian Foreign Ministry. The purchase of Italian arms [ More … ]
Letter from parents of Italian student murdered in 2016 urges Egyptian president to extradite suspects The parents of Giulio Regeni, the Italian student murdered in Cairo three years ago, have written to the Egyptian president [ More … ]
Egypt has rejected the addition of members of its security services to an Italian list of suspects in the murder of the student Giulio Regeni, in a statement that spelled his name incorrectly. “Egyptian law does [ More … ]
Members of Egyptian national security agency listed as potentially responsible for killing the Italian student student Giulio Regeni Italian prosecutors have named several members of Egypt’s national security agency as suspects in the alleged [ More … ]
The regime of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has unleashed an unprecedented level of violence and repression onto the people of Egypt. However, the European Union has chosen to ignore these pleas and continue cooperation with the Sisi [ More … ]
Surveillance footage handed over to Rome by Egyptian authorities for an investigation into the torture murder of an Italian researcher in Cairo contains “overwritten and unclear material”. Egyptian judicial sources said that the CCTV footage [ More … ]
Egypt summoned several western ambassadors in protest against a statement criticizing the country’s detention of a human rights lawyer who was helping investigate the case of a murdered Giulio Regeni, the Italian student, according to [ More … ]
Amnesty International released a report on the relentless assault on rights of workers and trade unionists in Egypt, saying that dozens of workers and trade unionists in Egypt have faced arrest, detention, dismissal from work or [ More … ]
Pope Francis’ visit to Egypt was reportedly described by many media outlets as a “risky trip” or the most dangerous trip Pope Francis has ever made as he decided to go into the very heart of [ More … ]
Egypt’s Interior Ministry said in a statement that it killed Hassan Mohamed Galal Mustafa, a student at Al-Azhar University when they were attempting to arrest him,while the student was forcibly disappeared by security forces 3 months ago, [ More … ]
About ten days after Egypt’s Prosecutor-General Nabil Sadek’s meeting with Rome’s Chief Prosecutor Giuseppe Pignatone and Italian investigation team, leaks are still emerging on the developments of Italian Ph.D. Student Giulio Regeni’s murder in Egypt. Giulio Regeni, [ More … ]
A new Regeni was found dead in Cairo after being arrested by the Egyptian police forces. The body of medical student Ahmed Medhat appeared at Cairo’s main morgue shortly after his arrest by the police [ More … ]
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