On May 28, 2019, Human Rights Watch released a report, “‘If You Are Afraid for Your Lives, Leave Sinai!’: Egyptian Security Forces and ISIS-Affiliate Abuses in North Sinai,” which details the serious abuses, including war crimes, Egyptian government forces and ISIS-affiliated militants have carried out in North Sinai.

Egypt’s armed forces spokesperson, Tamer Al-Refaei, denied the outcomes of a recent report issued by an international non-governmental human rights organisation, on violations during the Egyptian army’s operations in Sinai against terrorist groups.  

A new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) has for the first time detailed the extent of the crimes committed by the Sisi regime in the Sinai Peninsula.

The timing could not have been more perfect for Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi. His country will host the next session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) scheduled to take place from 24 April to 14 May 2019 at a time when Egypt ranks as one …

Human Rights Watch (HRW) today called on Israel to explain the nature of its forces’ involvement in Egypt’s crackdown in North Sinai, accusing Cairo of “committing violations” against civilians.

Human Rights Watch on Tuesday accused both Egyptian security forces and jihadists of committing “war crimes” in their confrontation in the restive North Sinai region.

At least 2,443 people, including minors at the time of their arrest, have been sentenced to death by Egyptian courts between 2011 and 2018, according to rights group Reprieve. The majority, the organisation says, have been handed out since President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi seized control of the country in a 2013 …

An international media group has demanded that Egypt free an Al Jazeera journalist held for more than two years after a court formally ordered his release last week. 

Egyptian security services banned a memorial service in Cairo on Wednesday for Laila Marzouk, the mother of an Egyptian whose death and torture at the hands of Egyptian police was one of the main triggers of the 2011 revolution.

Egypt’s top prosecutor has ordered the release of five prominent opposition figures who have been held since August, lawyers said on Monday.