The Egyptian administrative court declines request of leader of the Strong Egypt Party Dr. Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh to end his solitary confinement Egypt’s Administrative Court has rejected for the second time a request by [ More … ]
An Egyptian Islamist father and his son have been detained unlawfully since 2013 as part of the political persecution of ex-aides to deposed president Mohamed Morsi, and should be freed immediately and compensated, UN human [ More … ]
Crispin Blunt MP, Lord Edward Faulks QC, and Dr. Paul Williams MP have released a report with findings into the detention of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi. The report was published by the Independent, British [ More … ]
Egypt’s jailed former President Mohamed Morsi “is not an ordinary prisoner” and “if something happens to him in custody, there are likely to be wider consequences than simply just the fate of one prisoner,” Crispin [ More … ]
A rights group has stated that Some 80 % of detainees held in Egypt’s Al-Aqrab (Scorpion) Prison began a hunger strike in September to protest human rights violations against them. In a statement on its [ More … ]
On Tuesday, the 24th of October, French President Emmanuel Macron will meet Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt, as part of his official visit to Paris from October 23 to 25 this month. The French presidency said [ More … ]
Amnesty International once described the Egyptian youths as “Generation Protest”, the generation who took to the streets in Egypt to bring down a dictator in 2011. But unfortunately, the Egyptian youths have now acquired a grim new [ More … ]
Since his letter that was published in the New York Times, Gehad al-Hadad has been exposed to disciplinary detention, facing brutal torture. Gehad al-Hadad’s mother, Mrs. Mona Emam, published a post on her Facebook page that [ More … ]
Omar Abdel-Rahman, an icon for the Egyptian Salafi-jihadi movement, has died in a US prison while serving a life-sentence on conspiracy charges connected to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The Egyptian preacher has died [ More … ]
Dr. Mona Imam -Essam al-Haddad’s wife- said that she was prevented from visiting her son Gehad al-Haddad and her husband Essam al-Haddad. Essam al-Haddad was President Mohamed Morsi’s assistant for foreign relations and international cooperation [ More … ]
While waiting for his release, an Egyptian detainee was beaten by Egypt’s police and they brought fresh charges against him, said Amnesty International. Islam Khalil was transferred to the Second Raml Police Station in the [ More … ]
Amnesty International has denounced the extended detention and torture of a young detainee in Egypt, reported the Associated Press. The Egyptian young man has been detained over allegations that he belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood group. According [ More … ]
Two local coalitions for human rights have led a joint campaign against the practice of solitary confinement in Egyptian prisons. The campaign is expected to last for one month. The campaign led by “Freedom for [ More … ]
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