Egyptian activist Ahmed Douma, a leading figure in 2011 uprising, has been granted a presidential pardon, lawyers say. Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned a number of prisoners, including prominent Egyptian activist Ahmed Douma, the [ More … ]
Egypt has pardoned two human rights activists, Patrick Zaki and Mohamed El-Baqer, that had been held in prison, where one of the presidential pardons came just a day after Patrick Zaki was sentenced to three [ More … ]
A few days ago, Biden officials approved $75M in military aid for Egypt under allegations that the country has made “clear and consistent progress in releasing political prisoners and providing detainees with due process of [ More … ]
A Geneva-based watchdog has monitored release of 332 prisoners, but at the same time it has also monitored 950 violations within the arbitrary deprivation of liberty since April when Sisi announced launch of national dialogue. [ More … ]
A researcher that has recently received a presidential pardon to end his 18-month detention was informed by airport authorities that he is banned from travel Researcher Ahmed Samir Santawi was informed by Cairo airport authorities [ More … ]
Several “Tora” prisoners have been trained to talk about prison conditions before Sisi, with promises to include them in a presidential pardon list, reported Mada Masr. According to Mada Masr, one of the lawyers, who [ More … ]
The pardon effectively ends the prospect that any of the men who killed Jamal Khashoggi will be executed. A son of the slain Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi said on Friday that he and his siblings [ 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 … ]
Sudan Tribune, an independent Sudanese online newspaper, reported that Sudan Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour accused the Egyptian government of delaying the release of items and properties of Sudanese miners seized by the Egyptian army a [ More … ]
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