The Egyptian security forces detained 9 members of the same family when they didn’t find the wanted person. On July 17, 2016, the security forces stormed the house of Ashry Mohamed Ismail in a village [ More … ]
Amnesty International has released a new report saying that hundreds of Egyptians have been forcibly disappeared and tortured in a “sinister” campaign to wipe out peaceful dissent in the most populous country in the Arab [ More … ]
ANSA, the Italian news agency, has stated that the son of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Mahmoud, may have had a role as a secret service officer in the case of Giulio Regeni, the Italian student tortured [ More … ]
Justice Human Rights Organization –an independent rights organization- has released a report titled: “Bitter Recap” to document human rights violations in Egypt throughout the last 3 years, from (July 2013-July 2016) The report was released [ More … ]
Two months after recalling the Italian ambassador from Egypt in light of the unresolved murder of Giulio Regeni, the Italian Senate halts warplanes’ spare parts supplies to Egypt. On Wednesday, the Italian Senate voted to halt [ More … ]
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ahmed Abu Zeid condemned Amnesty International for its comments and allegations made against Egypt in his statement on the case of the Ph.D. student Giulio Regeni who was tortured and murdered [ More … ]
By: Mostafa Al-Naggar* The rings of the handcuffs are striking against each other, clanking and making squeaks which are not only heard by the residents of prison cells alone, but they are echoing in all [ More … ]
Enforced Disappearance has become an obvious phenomenon in Egypt. Human Rights organizations have documented many cases where activists were abducted by the Egyptian security forces. Even foreigners were targeted in Egypt. On the fifth anniversary [ More … ]
The Italian Foreign Minister stated today that the Italian ambassador to Egypt will stay in Rome for the time being as there is tension between the two countries following the murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni in [ More … ]
The Egyptian authorities have decided to build a new prison in Qaliubiya Governorate, north of Cairo, the third to be built this year and the eleventh since the military coup in July 2013, according to the [ More … ]
Giulio Regeni’s family strive to reach the truth about the barbaric murder of their son in Egypt on the anniversary of the January Revolution. The parents of the Ph.D. student said at the European Parliament’s [ More … ]
Regeni began dying soon after his arrival in Cairo in September 2015, where the Egyptian National Security Sector and the General Intelligence Service opened a confidential file on him, file no. 333//2915/01, with charges of [ More … ]
EgyptAir hijacker who had threatened to blow up the plane has told the Flight crew that he opposes the Egyptian military-backed government, said the Associated Press. His lawyer also said that his client’s extradition to [ More … ]
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