Despite shameful human rights violations under al-Sisi regime, Trump calls meeting with Sisi in Biarritz ‘great’. US President Donald Trump said on his Twitter account he had held a “great meeting” with Egypt’s Abdel Fattah [ More … ]
An international rights group urged Egypt to reveal the whereabouts of a well-known human rights lawyer who went missing after being detained. An Egyptian court ordered the release of Ezzat Ghoneim and another lawyer, Azzoz [ More … ]
After the excessive terrorist attacks on Egypt, Al-Sisi’s counter-terrorism policies have been questioned. The years of violence that followed the military coup since 2013 didn’t end or even contained as Egypt’s military general promised. However, [ More … ]
The nightmare of enforced disappearance in Egypt is escalating in an unprecedented way. The phenomena have reached serious levels recently.In a report by the Intercept tilted:”Mysterious Deaths and Enforced Disappearances: This is Egypt’s US-backed War [ More … ]
Sumaya Maher whereabouts is still unknown since her abduction by the Egyptian security forces on October 17,2017. Sumaya is the daughter of the former member in the Shura council Maher Khozaima. She has a bachelor [ More … ]
Human rights organizations recently reported that activists in Egypt have disappeared after they were stopped at government checkpoints. In Syria, the regime has disappeared thousands in the midst of its brutal civil war. In this context, [ More … ]
Egypt’s state official television has aired ‘exclusive’ footage of Italian student Giulio Regeni, who was found murdered in Cairo almost a year ago, speaking to the head of the independent street vendors’ union Mohamed Abdallah who [ More … ]
Amnesty International has called on the Egyptian authorities to retry all those convicted in the case known as 174/west Cairo military court before an ordinary, civilian court without recourse to the death penalty and in [ More … ]
After a meeting between the two leaders last week during the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China, Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull invited al- Sisi to visit Australia. ABC -Australia’s state-owned news and funded national public [ More … ]
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) stated in its new in-depth report that Egypt has approved the construction of 19 new prisons since January 2011 amid an ongoing crackdown on freedoms and human [ More … ]
A new Regeni was found dead in Cairo after being arrested by the Egyptian police forces. The body of medical student Ahmed Medhat appeared at Cairo’s main morgue shortly after his arrest by the police [ More … ]
The Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms ECRF, a non governmental rights group, released a report on enforced disappearance covering the period from the beginning of January 2016 to the end of June. The Egyptian [ More … ]
Amnesty International has released a new report saying that hundreds of Egyptians have been forcibly disappeared and tortured in a “sinister” campaign to wipe out peaceful dissent in the most populous country in the Arab [ More … ]
Giulio Regeni’s family strive to reach the truth about the barbaric murder of their son in Egypt on the anniversary of the January Revolution. The parents of the Ph.D. student said at the European Parliament’s [ More … ]
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