Qatar is holding negotiations between Palestinian groups and Israel for a possible deal on prisoner swap, an informed Palestinian source told Anadolu Agency on Monday. The source, which preferred his name not to be mentioned, [ More … ]
Mass protests show no sign of let-up despite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suspending controversial judicial overhaul more than a month ago Thousands of Israelis protested for an 18th straight week against the hard-right government’s [ More … ]
Lawyer Baqer, blogger Oxygen and activist Douma were beaten and tortured in Badr 1 Prison, according to a prisoner defending campaign. Human rights lawyer Mohamed El-Baqer, blogger Mohamed “Oxygen” Ibrahim, and activist Ahmed Douma were [ More … ]
EFHR denounces Egyptian authorities’ failure to properly compensate and reintegrate released political prisoners The Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) on Wednesday denounced Egyptian authorities’ failure to properly compensate and reintegrate released political prisoners in [ More … ]
A message leaked from the Badr-3 Prison – formerly “Al-Aqrab” (Scorpion) – and circulated by Egyptian rights organizations and activists, projects human rights “brutal” violations and abuses in Egyptian prisons. The message signed by Badr-3 [ More … ]
Egypt’s national dialogue is due to begin in a “few weeks”, the dialogue coordinator said, even as demands for the release of political prisoners go unheeded. According to Youm7, the National Dialogue Coordinator Diaa Rashwan [ More … ]
Ahead of COP27, the Egyptian human rights coalition on Cop27 calls for opening civic space and releasing everyone arbitrarily detained in Egypt. In the run-up to COP27 Sharm El Sheikh, the Egyptian human rights coalition [ More … ]
Seven people in Egypt and eighty one people in in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) have reportedly been all executed, based on political charges and others. The We Record human rights organization has revealed [ 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 … ]
A recent letter reviewed by The Washington Post, US lawmakers signal Sisi’s rights violation ‘will not be tolerated’ if Biden wins the presidency. US lawmakers are calling on Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to release political [ More … ]
Prisoners at Tora Istiqbal Prison are demanding putting an end to harsh disciplinary measures, according to rights groups Detainees at one of Egypt’s most notorious prisons have gone on hunger strike in protest against ill-treatment, [ More … ]
Prisoners in Egypt’s notorious high-security Aqrab (Scorpion) Prison have gone on hunger strike in protest at the death of a fellow inmate as a result of medical negligence. Dr. Amro Abou Khalil, a psychiatrist held [ More … ]
With the increasing spread of the coronavirus over the world, Egyptian political and human rights activists launched a campaign titled, “Release the prisoners” The campaign demanded the Egyptian authorities to release the detainees due to [ More … ]
An Iranian judiciary spokesperson said tens of thousands of prisoners, including political prisoners, had been releasedIran has released around 85,000 prisoners, including political prisoners, from its jails to combat the spread of coronavirus, a judicial [ More … ]
President Donald Trump shocked onlookers at the G7 meeting when he praised the president of Egypt as a dictator. “Inside a room of the ornately decorated Hotel du Palais during last month’s Group of Seven [ More … ]
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