An Egyptian prisoner has died in Zagazig Police Station due to the bad conditions of his detention and lack of adequate medical care. A detainee has died in Egypt’s Zagazig Police Station after deterioration of [ More … ]
Dr. Hamdi Hassan, a former Muslim Brotherhood member of parliament who was elected three times between 2000 and 2012, has died in his cell according to his son. Hamdi Hassan died on Thursday at the [ More … ]
Human rights groups have announced that Dr. Musa Al-Qarni has died in Saudi prisons, after spending 14 years of arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. ALQST, a London-based human rights organization that documents and promotes human rights [ More … ]
Egyptian writer and Sisi critic Amin El-Mahdi died a few days after he was released from pretrial detention, which raised questions among Egyptian activists on the causes of his death. Amin El-Mahdi was first imprisoned [ More … ]
The 66-year-old anti-Sisi Egyptian politician had been barred from receiving visitors for the past six months, according to his lawyer Dr. Essam el-Erian, a senior leader in Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and former Member of Parliament, [ More … ]
A prominent Egyptian journalist, Mohamed Monir, who had been jailed on charges of broadcasting false news died of COVID-19 on Monday, raising fears that the coronavirus may be spreading undetected in Egypt’s notoriously crowded prisons. [ More … ]
Toppled Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak dead, the autocrat that was removed in the 2011 revolution has died at the age 91, receiving plaudits from Egypt’s presidency and military, as well as Israel’s Netanyahu Hosni Mubarak, [ More … ]
Mustafa Kassem, American citizen who had been held in Egyptian prison for past five years, died on Monday after series of hunger strikes Two US Senators called on President Donald Trump to “immediately” sanction Egypt [ More … ]
Aid Group “Save the Children” says that some 85,000 children may have died of hunger in Yemen An estimated 85,000 children under age 5 may have died of severe acute malnutrition since Yemen’s civil war [ More … ]
A Palestinian prisoner held by the Palestinian Authority (PA) died on Sunday, reportedly from health complications after two days on hunger strike. Ghalib Abdullah Daraghma, a 48-year-old resident of the occupied West Bank city of [ More … ]
Shimon Peres, the giant of Israeli politics, has died at 93. The leading political figure served twice as prime minister, once as president and won Nobel peace prize Shimon Peres, one of Israel’s defining political [ More … ]
Almost 18,000 Syrians have died in government jails since 2011, with authorities using torture, beatings, electric shocks and rape against prisoners on a “massive scale,” a rights group has said. The UK-based Amnesty International said on [ More … ]
The Palestinian 3-year-old child Rayyan Shraim died during the attack targeting Turkey’s Ataturk airport in Istanbul, a day after the funeral of his mother who died in the same attack last Tuesday. Rayan’s death brought [ More … ]
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