Videos leaked to MEE appear to show prisoners beaten, tortured and hung by Egyptian security officers at al-Salam Awel Police Station in Cairo.

Celebrating the Police Day and the January 25 Revolution, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi issued a presidential decree to pardon some prisoners.

Over the summer last year, Nourhan Moustafa’s brother left the house to attend a meeting with a colleague but, instead, was arrested by National Security Agency officers who stole his money, keys and mobile phone.

A Palestinian national passed away over the weekend inside his cell in a detention center in El-Arish, the capital of the restive province of North Sinai , a family member of the deceased told The New Arab on Wednesday.

Egypt’s superficial attempts to create an impression of human rights progress failed to disguise the government’s brutal repression of all manner of dissent in 2021, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2022.

Egypt’s State Security Prosecution has decided to extend the prison term of three Al Jazeera journalists for 45 days, despite reports that one is suffering serious health problems.

Human rights organisations and activists yesterday welcomed Egypt’s decision to release 15 female detainees after they spent two years in pretrial detention.

Families of Egyptian prisoners at Abu Zaabal Prison have called for saving their sons from a “slow death” as a result of the treatment they are being subjected to by the prison services, Sharqia news website reported yesterday.

The head of the International Dialogue Group, Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat, yesterday announced that he was reviewing cases of Egyptian prisoners held in pretrial detention, in preparation for their release in the coming days.

The Egyptian Network for Human Rights (ENHR) said last week that Egyptian authorities held the body of a prisoner for six years without telling his family he had died.