We Record: Suffering of detainees in Scorpion Prison continues to deteriorate
We Record has said that detention conditions in Scorpion Prison, where the most prominent political detainees are jailed, continues to deteriorate, reaching a situation that represents a serious threat for the mental and physical health of the detainees. It has…
ANHRI: Trying political prisoners at exceptional courts exposes lies behind the National Human Rights Strategy
The Arab Network for Human Rights Information denounced the referral of the YouTube blogger Mohamed Oxygen to trial before the State Security Court for Emergency, which is an exceptional court that lacks the basic standards of fair trials, according to…
CTUWS: New labour legislation eliminates job security and right to strike
The Centre for Trade Unions and Workers Services said that the bill of the new labour legislation, which was prepared by the Senate to be referred to the House of Representatives within days, eliminates job security and bans the right…
Khaled Al-Adawy: Egyptian political detainee tortured to death by National Security
The Egyptian Network for Human Rights said that the Egyptian businessman Khaled Al-Adawy, who died in Omrania Police Station, was tortured to death. The network said in a statement that it worked over a couple of months on gathering information…
Egypt asks Ahmed Douma’s family for EGP 6 million in exchange for release
The Facebook page of the detained activist Ahmed Douma said that the Egyptian Prisons Authority demanded his family pay off an EGP 6 million fine in the case of the Cabinet’s Incidents. The demand came in response to the measures…
Five prisoners in Zagazig report torture and maltreatment to the attorney general
Human rights lawyer Khaled Ali announced that he filed a report to the attorney general demanding he investigate the torture and maltreatment of five prisoners by several officers in Zagazig Public Prison. The prisoners are Khalil Abdel Hamid Khalil, Mohamed…
CFJ: Egyptian authorities killed hundreds of Giulio Regenis
The Committee for Justice has said that although Regeni’s murder is still talked about, the Egyptian authorities continue wasting the lives of numerous victims who died from systemic torture and other violations in prisons and detention centres. The organisation pointed…
Egyptian campaign against death penalty says Egypt executed 176 over past year
The advocacy campaign, Stop the Death Penalty in Egypt, recorded 534 death sentences issued by Egypt’s courts in the period between August 2020 and August 2021. The campaign’s first annual report, “The Irreversible: The death penalty crisis in Egypt,” showed…
EIPR: Egyptians lacked social protection against COVID-19 crisis
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights issued a report over the Egyptian social protection policies during the COVID-19 pandemic. The report tracked the social protection policies in Egypt regarding wages, pensions, insurance, and health care as well as the financial…
Egypt isolated from the world under the pretext of ‘security concerns’
Egyptian cultural and literary circles expressed their astonishment at the 73-year-old African writer Abdel Razzaq Garnah winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, as most of those belonging to these circles had not read Karnah before, and many of them had…
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