Egyptian police have arrested at least one of the three alleged perpetrators involved in the killing of a young woman in a Cairo suburb on Tuesday night in an incident that sparked anger across the Middle Eastern country.

Hundreds of prisoners at Tora Reception prison in Cairo have been protesting since Friday due to grave mistreatment in the past two weeks, according to two sources who spoke to Mada Masr, one of whom is a human rights lawyer who has been following the events.

Egyptian authorities continue to crack down on terrorist elements in the Sinai Peninsula, but more recently these operations seem to have moved out of Sinai and closer to the capital city of Cairo.

A court in Cairo on Monday has sentenced 11 people to 15 years in prison in the Nahda sit-in case. The court also decided to jail four juveniles for three years in prison and acquitted a defendant from charges.

The Cairo Criminal Court on Tuesday renewed prison sentences for political activist Alaa Abdel Fattah and lawyer Mohamed al-Baqer for 45 days, pending investigations into charges of “spreading false news that would impact the national security of the country.”

Human rights advocates have cast doubt over an Interior Ministry statement announcing the death of four inmates and three police officers at a prison in Egypt whilst attempting to escape.

A fourth policeman wounded during an unsuccessful escape attempt from Egypt’s Tora Prison on Wednesday has died after succumbing to his injuries. His death brings the number of police victims in the case to four, and the total death toll to eight. 

Egypt has ordered that the men accused of gang-raping a young woman at the Fairmont Hotel be arrested. The prosecution has also put them on a list of people who are banned from travelling.

Egypt’s public prosecution office announced on Wednesday that it has opened an investigation into the alleged gang rape of an 18-year-old woman in a luxury hotel in Cairo in 2014.

A gang rape allegation at a luxury hotel in Egypt stemming from a prominent social media account has triggered a new #MeToo wave in the deeply conservative country.