The board of trustees of the National Dialogue has been appointed, consisting of 19 members, the National Dialogue Administration said in a statement on Sunday.

Amnesty International has called for the release of prominent Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who on Saturday marks 1,000 days of “unjust detention”.

The National Council for Women (NCW) submitted a report to the Public Prosecutor denouncing Al-Azhar University professor Mabrouk Attia’s statement regarding about the murdered Mansoura University student Naira Ashraf.

The EU has been called out for watering down criticism of their ally Egypt following an EU-Egypt Association Council meeting last week.

The European Union and its member states should stop supporting the Egyptian government’s brutal rule and set concrete human rights benchmarks as criteria for progress in relations, Human Rights Watch said today. Egypt’s foreign minister, Sameh Shoukry, is expected to meet with the EU foreign affairs High Representative Josep Borrell …

To: Josep Borrell, High Representative for Foreign Affairs / Vice-President of the European Commission Foreign Ministers of the EU member states Brussels, May 25, 2022 RE: Joint NGO letter ahead of EU-Egypt Association Council meeting

The UN human rights chief has said she appreciates the “positive steps” taken by the Egyptian president “to advance human rights.”

More than 1,000 celebrities have urged UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and her US counterpart Antony Blinken to use their “diplomatic power” and help secure the release of Egyptian-British political prisoner, Alaa Abd el-Fattah.

Policies implemented by the Egyptian government at the Rafah border crossing to Gaza have “exacerbated” human rights conditions, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch.

At least 28,670 people were on death row around the world at the end of 2021, Amnesty International said in a report released yesterday, with Iran, Egypt and Saudi Arabia topping the list.