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Egypt Latest News

Egypt: 22 people handed long prison sentences for exposing torture, not for engagement in it

November 22, 2022 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt: Detainees subjected to 24 hours/day lighting, which “amounts to torture”

October 10, 2022 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt: A high school student dies in police station; police say his death was natural

August 4, 2022 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt: Regime punishes victims of torture, not its perpetrators, rights report

June 12, 2022 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt: Leaked photos of Hadhoud’s body show signs of torture

April 28, 2022 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt: Economic expert ‘Hadhoud’ passes away after arrest and disappearance for 2 months

April 11, 2022 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt: More video leaks on torture in police stations

February 18, 2022 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt: A businessman reported dead during interrogation in security detention

August 9, 2021 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

French spyware bosses indicted for their role in the torture of dissidents in Egypt and Libya

June 23, 2021 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Saudi Arabia News

Saudi Arabia Keeps a Secret Prison in Yemen Amid Calls to Release Activists

June 15, 2020 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

U.S. citizen ‘Mohamed Soltan’ sues Egypt’s ex-prime minister for torture: WP

June 1, 2020 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt Must End Egypt’s Detention and Torture of Children Amid Coronavirus: HRW

May 8, 2020 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egyptian Tortured to Death in Police Station

September 13, 2019 Ahmed Rashed

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Trump Praises Al-Sisi Despite Harsh Human Rights Record

August 29, 2019 Ahmed Rashed

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 … ]

UN: Assad must be tried, Syria is torture-chamber
Egypt Latest News

Rights groups criticize U.N. decision to hold conference on torture in Egypt

August 16, 2019 MEO Staff

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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