Egypt detainee dies after four days in “punishment cell”
July 25, 2019 Omar Adel, 29, died on Monday in Tora Prison after being held in a punishment cell for five days, sparking widespread anger among activists on social media. Prison authorities put Omar in the punishment cell last Thursday…
Australian company Jessland files international arbitration suit against Egypt
July 24, 2019 The Australian mining company Jessland has filed an arbitration suit with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) of the World Bank against the Egyptian state-owned mining company after the Abu Dabab mine license was…
Egypt court rejects Coptic inheritance rights
July 23, 2019 On Sunday the Family Court rejected an appeal by Huda Nasrallah, an Egyptian lawyer for the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, against the ruling of the lower court to apply Islamic law to her and her…
Human Rights report calls for international investigation into Morsi’s death
July 23, 2019 On Sunday the Al-Shehab Centre and Adalah issued a joint report on the death of Mohamed Morsi, the first elected civilian president in Egypt’s history. The report described the events of Morsi’s death and the violations…
Egyptian detainee asks not to be released for fear of his life
July 23, 2019 The Cairo Criminal Court on Sunday decided to release human rights activist Ahmed Abdel Sattar Amasha two years after his arrest, but in a strange incident he asked the court to keep him prisoner for fear of…
Amnesty International condemns Egypt NGO law
July 19, 2019 On Wednesday Amnesty International criticised the recent NGO Law passed by the Egyptian parliament. Amnesty said the new law was aimed primarily at replacing the country’s most severe NGO law of 2017, but did little to end…
75 Egyptians detained in Saudi on terrorism charges
July 19, 2019 Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday new statistics on the number of foreign detainees arrested and charged with terrorism and working against state security in the kingdom. There are currently 1,050 foreigners detained on these charges,…
Egypt court renews detention of lawyer for wearing a yellow vest
July 19, 2019 The Alexandria Criminal Court on Wednesday rejected the appeal of the lawyer Mohammed Ramadan in case No. 16576 of 2018, known as the “yellow vests.” Mohammed is accused of joining and promoting a terrorist group, spreading false…
El-Nadeem: 1,414 human rights violations in Egypt in 2019
July 18, 2019 El-Nadeem, the most prominent human rights NGO in Egypt, issued on Tuesday a report entitled “From the media: the archive of coercion.” The report presents a toll of human rights violations in Egypt. In the first half…
A conflict between the speaker of parliament and “sovereign authorities”
July 18, 2019 The speaker of the Egyptian parliament Ali Abdel Aal gave a speech on Tuesday in which he professed his loyalty to General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. “My loyalty is, after God, to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Love and…
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