Al-Sisi’s regime executed nine men for killing Egypt’s top prosecutor, a prison source and a lawyer said on Wednesday. The men were among a group of 28 who were sentenced to death in the case [ More … ]
Three British lawmakers on Monday endorsed reports that women activists detained in Saudi Arabia have been tortured, and said responsibility for what is likely a violation of international law could lie with “Saudi authorities at [ More … ]
A British woman jailed for smuggling drugs into Egypt has told how she saw two girls tortured in front of her while she was in prison. Laura Plummer, 34, arrived home on Tuesday (29 January) [ More … ]
The EU’s lawmaking body has condemned Egyptian authorities for human rights abuses and is urging them to lift restrictions on free speech and assembly, halt mass trials and stop sentencing minors to death, and release [ 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 … ]
Egyptian Children face shocking violations including torture and enforced disappearance The Egyptian authorities have committed shocking violations against children since 2013, with at least six tortured in custody and 12 subjected to enforced disappearances since [ More … ]
An international rights group urged Egypt to reveal the whereabouts of a well-known human rights lawyer who went missing after being detained. An Egyptian court ordered the release of Ezzat Ghoneim and another lawyer, Azzoz [ More … ]
An Egyptian court sentenced a former advisor to Egypt’s first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi along with 13 other people to life in prison for belonging to an illegal group. Abdullah Shehata was an economic advisor [ More … ]
Cairo’s prosecutor’s office decided to open an investigation into a case of a man who died while in custody at the Hadayeq al-Qubba Police Station. On Friday, Ahmed Zalat, a 39-year-old man who was arrested [ More … ]
Over the past few years, the term “enforced disappearance” has emerged on the surface of volatile and accelerating political events. The Egyptians were not familiar with such violation which deprives a person from law protection, [ More … ]
The Egyptian authorities arrested the parents of a former university student, Anas Al-Mahdi, who was killed by the police in 2015. “My parents have been arrested by the Egyptian police,” Al-Mahdi’s sister, Hind, wrote on [ More … ]
Egypt’s chief prosecutor delivered a withering broadside against the news media on Wednesday, blaming the “forces of evil” for negative coverage and instructing his staff to take legal action against outlets deemed to be undermining [ More … ]
The BBC published last week a short documentary and report highlighting what it said were cases of enforced disappearances and torture carried out by security forces since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power in 2014. [ More … ]
The European Parliament issued a resolution on executions in Egypt on 8 February, expressing concerns that “strict procedures are in place within the country’s legal system in cases where the death penalty is applicable.” The European [ 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 … ]
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