Egypt’s public prosecution is now carrying out an investigation into social media allegations accusing a young Egyptian man of sexual assault and rape of dozens of young women.

Egypt’s top appeals court upheld on Saturday a 15-year prison sentence for a leading figure of the country’s 2011 uprising, according to a judicial source.

Egyptians who demonstrated in support of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s coup in the summer of 2013 likely expected, at a minimum, increased political freedom and an improved economic situation.

On Saturday, the famous Egyptian belly dancer and political satirist Sama El-Masry ws sentenced to three years in prison and a hefty fine. Her fate will come as little surprise to anyone who has observed the trajectory of the Sisi regime since it took power in a coup in 2013. 

As of June 29, 2020, at least four Egyptian journalists who covered the COVID-19 pandemic remain in prison following their arrests in March and April, according to news reports and local journalists and lawyers who spoke to CPJ.

Amnesty yesterday called on the Egyptian authorities to protect a detained journalist from “torture and ill-treatment”.

Egyptian authorities have been condemned by rights groups for raiding an independent news outlet and arresting its editor-in-chief as well as harassing the family of a US national who filed a lawsuit against a former prime minister over human rights abuses.

Sanaa Seif, a film editor and the youngest sister of imprisoned activist and software blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah, was imprisoned by the State Security Prosecution on Tuesday, which ordered her to be held for 15 days in remand detention on charges of incitement of terrorist crimes, spreading false news …

Three rights organisations have launched a campaign to highlight the plight of victims of torture in Egypt to mark mark the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.

Prominent Egyptian activist Sanaa Seif has been abducted outside the prosecutor-general’s office in Cairo, according to a relative.