The Biden administration is releasing nearly $200 million in military aid to Egypt but will hold back millions more over human rights concerns, the State Department said Tuesday in an announcement quickly criticized by rights [ More … ]
Reporters Without Borders called on Egypt on Thursday to release four Al Jazeera journalists immediately. Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) known as Reporters has called for the immediate release of an Al Jazeera journalist who was [ More … ]
The human rights organization DAWN has once again called on the Egyptian government to release Abdullah Boumediene who was forcibly disappeared from Sinai when he was just 12 years old. Abdullah has spent four years [ More … ]
A number of prominent public figures, activists, Human rights advocates and journalists worldwide have joined the ‘Ifrag’ campaign for the release of the elderly and patients in Egypt’s prisons, especially amid the outbreak of the [ More … ]
Prominent American actress urges Egyptian authorities to release activists from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EiPR) in a video posted on the group’s YouTube channel Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson has called on Egyptian authorities to free [ More … ]
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 … ]
US Democratic candidate Joe Biden has said there will be no more “blank checks for Trump’s favorite dictator” in a widely shared Twitter post. The comments come not long after the release of the dual [ More … ]
A well-known Saudi activist and whistle-blower known online as “Mujtahid” has exposed the existence of a secret prison run by Riyadh in Yemen’s largest province, Hadhramout. Mujtahid made his claim on Twitter yesterday, where he [ More … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
Egyptian social media activists on Sunday launched a campaign calling for saving the life of Gehad Haddad who suffered from food contamination in an Egyptian jail. Since the military overthrow in July 2013 of Egypt’s [ More … ]
Yellow vests have become the symbol of an ongoing protest movement in France Rights group Amnesty International called Monday for the release of an Egyptian lawyer arrested after posing in a photo wearing a yellow [ More … ]
The Trump administration’s recent decision to release $195 million in military aid to Egypt has left rights experts stunned and deeply worried, says an NPR report. A year ago, then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson suspended [ More … ]
Sadiq al-Mahdi, the leader of Sudan’s largest opposition party, the National Umma Party, has called for “reconciliation” with Egypt in return for the release of imprisoned Muslim Brotherhood leaders. Speaking in an interview to Sudan [ More … ]
As next in line to be king of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Nayef was unaccustomed to being told what to do. Then, one night in June, he was summoned to a palace in Mecca, held [ More … ]
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