Most influential Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi died Monday at age 96, according to his official Twitter account. The tweet on Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi’s official Twitter account read: His Eminence Imam Yusuf al-Qaradawi who spent [ More … ]
Sami Mohamed Suleiman, 57, a former army officer, died in an Egyptian prison this week after six years in pre-trial detention according to ENHR A former Egyptian army colonel died in prison on Saturday after [ More … ]
A secondary school student has died while being held in the Montazah Police Station. While the Interior Ministry says: It’s natural death, a human rights organization says in a report that: the body had bruises [ More … ]
The Egyptian general who ruled the country following the Arab Spring uprising that removed longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak from power, has died. Hussein Tantawi, the Egyptian general who took charge of the country when longtime [ More … ]
One more Egyptian political detainee died in the notorious Scorpion prison Wednesday, 3 September, as a result of medical negligence, his family and human rights advocates said on Facebook. Ahmed Abdelnabi, 63, suffered from “multiple [ More … ]
An Egyptian young man has died inside the al Ahram Police Station in Giza, Greater Cairo, in mysterious circumstances. The family of Tarek Mohamed Al-Gabri was told that he had died in the police station [ More … ]
A leading Saudi human rights defender, Abdullah al-Hamid, has died after suffering a stroke earlier this month, Human Rights Watch reported. Saudi human rights activists say that imprisoned Abdullah al-Hamid, 69, did not receive adequate [ More … ]
Two more Egyptians died Sunday in jail as a result of their “deteriorating health conditions”, local media reported. One of the detainees was identified as 61-year-old Ibrahim Al-Batea, who died of “a stroke due to [ More … ]
Against the backdrop of the death of a detainee in the Scorpion Prison, south of Cairo, families of the notorious prison detainees are calling for an urgent investigation into what they considered a “horrific murder”. [ More … ]
The Muslim Brotherhood’s former supreme guide Mahdi Akef died in prison on Friday (Sept. 22) at the age of 89 due to medical negligence. After four years of suffering from cancer in prison without receiving [ More … ]
Surge in number of migrants attempting to reach Italy driven by nightmarish conditions Nightmarish conditions in Libya are helping to drive a surge in the numbers of migrants attempting to reach Italy in the depths [ More … ]
Ministry announced martyrdom of the UAE Ambassador to Afghanistan The Ministry of Presidential Affairs on Wednesday announced the martyrdom of Juma Mohammad Abdullah Al Kaabi, UAE ambassador to Afghanistan, who succumbed to his injuries which [ More … ]
Two travelers died “of natural causes” at the Rafah crossing on Sunday, on the second of a three-day opening of the border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian border committee said in [ More … ]
A Palestinian detainee died in an Israeli prison after suffering a stroke on Sunday morning, local media reported. Yasser Hamdouna, 41, had recently been suffering from health problems according to residents from his village Yaabad [ More … ]
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