Wife of former Egyptian Supply Minister Bassem Odeh complains that the security forces have denied her husband the right to prison visits for four years On this day in 2016, the family of the former [ More … ]
Amnesty International calls upon authorities to allow family visits as well as regular contacts with lawyers to all detainees in Sisi’s prisons Amnesty has called on the coup authorities in Egypt to allow all detainees [ 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 … ]
A rights group has stated that Some 80 % of detainees held in Egypt’s Al-Aqrab (Scorpion) Prison began a hunger strike in September to protest human rights violations against them. In a statement on its [ More … ]
The Israel Prison Service (IPS) has suspended family visitation rights to Palestinian prisoners, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Tuesday. The Israeli authorities continues its crackdown on prisoners as the large-scale “Freedom [ More … ]
A delegation of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas is expected to visit Cairo the coming days. Palestinian reconciliation talks will be the top agenda as well as talks on Gaza Strip and Egypt’s shared border. [ More … ]
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