The EU’s lawmaking body has condemned Egyptian authorities for human rights abuses and is urging them to lift restrictions on free speech and assembly, halt mass trials and stop sentencing minors to death, and release [ 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 … ]
Italian investigators prepared an initial list of defendants, accusing 26 persons of killing the Italian student Giulio Regeni in Egypt in 2016 which marks a critical development in the case. An initial list was pared down [ More … ]
The Guardian is wondering who killed Regeni in a new article titled:” Who murdered Giulio Regeni?” The writer of the article Alexander Stille, said that “in a digital age, it’s harder than ever to get [ More … ]
The employees of the Egyptian Public Transport Authority who have been arrested ahead of a planned strike earlier this week will file a complaint to the general prosecutor as their relatives’ whereabouts are unknown. Magdy Hassan [ More … ]
A special report released by Reuters revealed that the Italian Ph.D. student Giulio Regeni made a Skype call from his Cairo flat to an academic in Germany, ten days before he vanished, and he sounded anxious. Georgeta [ More … ]
A security source in Giza General Directorate stated that the Egyptian security forces have increased their presence around Imbaba police station after the protest of dozens of the family of a young man whose body was [ More … ]
Egypt expressed its anger from the Italian Senate decision to halt the supply of fighter jets to Egypt in the light of Giulio Regeni’s murder. Egypt said it “regrets” a decision by the Italian parliament [ More … ]
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