Human rights organizations say the United Nations must adopt a resolution on the dire human rights situation in Egypt. Reactions have continued to the leaked message from prisoners at Badr-3 Prison, which highlighted the violations [ More … ]
Several human rights organizations have declared solidarity with the complaint of human rights defender Ramy Shaath and his wife Celine Lebrun with the African Commission against the Egyptian government’s violations Forty four human rights organizations [ More … ]
A Geneva-based watchdog has monitored release of 332 prisoners, but at the same time it has also monitored 950 violations within the arbitrary deprivation of liberty since April when Sisi announced launch of national dialogue. [ More … ]
Egypt’s coastguard is set to receive €80 million ($84.2 million) from the EU to prevent boats carrying asylum seekers from leaving its shores for Europe. A paper drafted by the EU Commission last week says [ More … ]
During a recent visit to her son in prison, blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah, Laila Soueif learned that he had again been assaulted by prison authorities for attempting to exercise his rights. During a visit yesterday [ More … ]
Among signs of ongoing human rights violations in Sisi’s prisons, there are three most recent stories in this regard: a death in detention, a hunger strike, and a painful family separation These stories demonstrate the [ More … ]
Five human rights organizations have new reports about the human rights situation in Egypt, where they have documented the continued violations of fundamental rights in Egypt under Sisi, reported the Committee for Justice . Amnesty [ More … ]
On Sept. 18, 2019, Egypt’s Interior Ministry issued a six-line statement announcing that security forces had killed nine elements of the Brotherhood in two “hideouts” in and near Cairo. The Muslim Brotherhood, one of Egypt’s [ More … ]
Al-Azhar has condemned in a statement “he Zionist entity’s terror and its brutal violations against the people of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem”. “Al-Azhar condemns in the strongest terms the Zionist entity’s terrorism and [ More … ]
A declaration, signed by 31 states expressed “deep concern” for widespread human rights violations committed with impunity by the Egyptian authorities. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from around the world on 12 March expressed their strong support [ More … ]
Paris conferred the Legion d’Honneur on Egyptian ruler as an apparent thank you for being a loyal customer of France’s arms industry, reports Borzou Daragahi France’s President Emmanuel Macron gifted Egypt’s authoritarian ruler Abdel Fattah al-Sisi [ More … ]
The brave people who work to protect Egyptians from abuse are under aggressive and accelerating attack. The attackers come from the government, its proxies in the media, its security forces, and even elements of the [ More … ]
Egypt’s parliament approved a new law governing nongovernment organizations on July 14, 2019, that would maintain many of the existing restrictions on their work, Human Rights Watch said today. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi should not approve [ More … ]
More than 1,000 human rights violations have taken place in Egypt since the start of 2019, according to the Cairo-based NGO El-Nadeem. In total El-Nadeem recorded 283 cases of individual torture, 30 deaths in custody [ 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 … ]
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