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 … ]
Prisoners of the newly-built Egyptian prisons are being subjected to a highly effective form of sensory deprivation, a part of which being the lights in cells that are kept on 24 hours a day. Mona [ More … ]
A secondary school student has died while being held in the Montazah Police Station. While the Interior Ministry says: It’s natural death, a human rights organization says in a report that: the body had bruises [ More … ]
The Human Rights Watch organization states in a report that in response to torture complaints, the Egyptian regime punishes victims of torture, not the police officers that practice it, where “trial of alleged torture victims [ More … ]
Newly obtained photos of the body of Egyptian economist Ayman Hadhoud, who died in custody strongly suggest that he was exposed to severe torture which ultimately led to his death in a psychiatric hospital. Rights [ More … ]
Egyptian economic expert Ayman Hadhoud, who worked with the Reform and Development Party, has passed away after having been forcibly disappeared in February. Ayman Hadhoud, a graduate of the American University in Cairo and economic [ More … ]
Detainees at Egypt’s Al-Salam Police Station in Cairo have reportedly suffered renewed torture following leaks of secret filming of abuse. Last month some video leaks to the Guardian showed Egyptian police torturing prisoners at a police [ More … ]
It has been reported through local media and social networking sites that an Egyptian businessman died inside one of the National Security Sector’s headquarters in Egypt after enforced disappearance. Khaled Saad Al-Adawy, an Egyptian businessman [ More … ]
An investigation into the sale of surveillance technologies to Libya and Egypt has led to charges against leaders at one company. Senior executives at a French spyware firm have been indicted for the company’s sale [ 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 … ]
Mohamed Soltan, a U.S. citizen, and former high-profile Egyptian political prisoner has reportedly filed a lawsuit against Egypt’s ex-prime minister for being exposed to torture during detention in Egypt’s prisons. Mohamed Soltan filed a federal [ More … ]
The Human Rights Watch has most recently called for urgently ending detention and torture of children, especially in light of the outbreak of coronavirus in the country, with the risk of its spread among prisoners. [ More … ]
A detainee being held at a police station in Giza governorate was beaten to death last week , reports Masrawy. The Interior Ministry has denied Karim Al-Khawaja, 45, died at the hands of police and instead [ More … ]
Despite shameful human rights violations under al-Sisi regime, Trump calls meeting with Sisi in Biarritz ‘great’. US President Donald Trump said on his Twitter account he had held a “great meeting” with Egypt’s Abdel Fattah [ More … ]
Human rights activists on Thursday criticized a United Nations decision to hold a conference in Cairo on torture with an Egyptian state organization. “It’s illogical for a country where torture is systematic to host a [ More … ]
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