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 … ]
Twenty-two-year-old Wael Mahmoud Ali Al-Sibai has been tortured to death inside Wadi Natroun prison in Egypt, according to rights groups. Al-Sibai was arrested when he was just 16-years-old at the Fath Mosque in Ramses Square [ More … ]
Repeated rescue cries from Al-Wadi al Jadid prison in Ramadan. Prisoners suffer from starvation, thirst, humiliation, and deliberate negligence. The prison cuts the water throughout the day and leaves it only for one hour. Prisoners [ More … ]
Egyptian activists have launched a campaign on the social media that calls for the release of a young detainee who suffers from leukemia. Activists said that they suspect that the young detainee was afflicted by [ More … ]
-Since army ousted Egypt’s first freely-elected president in 2013, regime has waged all-out war against Muslim Brotherhood – In the three years since Egypt’s bloody military coup, the Muslim Brotherhood has seen at least 30 [ More … ]
Egypt’s social media mourned Mohanad known as ‘January Revolution Bee’ a few days after his 20th birthday. Hours after his death, the hashtag “#Mohanad_died” rated #1 on the popular trend in Egypt. Why have many activists [ More … ]
It was a hard day for Egyptian lawyers as neither their physical rights are protected after the Egypt’s Court of Cassation canceled the rule issued against the two police officers who tortured a lawyer to death, [ More … ]
Due to the Egyptian authorities’ procrastination in allowing a required surgery to save the life of Journalist Hesham Gaafar, the Egyptian-Journalists-Campaign has launched an initiative to consider Tuesday, Sept. 19 as a blogging day to write [ More … ]
During the seven-hour meeting with the editors-in-chiefs of state-owned newspapers, al-Sisi said that there are no detainees in Egypt, according to Daily News Egypt. In the third and final part of the interview, al-Sisi issued [ More … ]
Dr. Tarek El Ghandour, a dermatologist professor at Ain Shams University and a leading figure of the Freedom and Justice party, was sentenced by the criminal court to 5 years in prison on December 14, [ More … ]
Justice Human Rights Organization –an independent rights organization- has released a report titled: “Bitter Recap” to document human rights violations in Egypt throughout the last 3 years, from (July 2013-July 2016) The report was released [ More … ]
By: Mostafa Al-Naggar* The rings of the handcuffs are striking against each other, clanking and making squeaks which are not only heard by the residents of prison cells alone, but they are echoing in all [ More … ]
The Egyptian authorities have decided to build a new prison in Qaliubiya Governorate, north of Cairo, the third to be built this year and the eleventh since the military coup in July 2013, according to the [ More … ]
Egypt’s prisons have witnessed the death of four people in the last two days. Maged Al-Hanafy, 35, died in the Wadi Al-Natrun prison complex’s hospital amid allegations of medical negligence. Maged was arrested in December [ More … ]
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