An international law firm based in London and Istanbul has called on the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances to immediately intervene on behalf of an Egyptian family that has suffered torture in detention.

British wife barred from contact with activist husband, describing his detention as a ‘hostage-taking situation’

A mother of three and grandmother of several was blindfolded and beaten repeatedly in detention in Egypt, rights organisation We Record has revealed, before being sexually assaulted and electrocuted on her genitals.

A leading Egyptian rights group, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), said on Monday that its recently detained director Gasser Abdelrazek was “in danger” due to poor conditions in jail.

The pretrial detentions of Egyptian lawyer and human rights defender Hoda Abdelmonem and political prisoner Aisha al-Shater have expired, Amnesty International has said, calling for their immediate release.

Gasser Abdel-Razek, the head of one of Egypt’s top human rights organizations, has been held in solitary confinement following his arrest last week, his lawyers say.

The human rights organisation We Record has documented several unprecedented violations inside Al-Qanater women’s prison.

Egyptian officials physically assaulted a number of female political prisoners at the Qanatir women’s jail on Saturday in an “unprecedented violation,” a rights group reported.

An Egyptian court on Tuesday ordered the release of hundreds of prisoners, including journalists, politicians and students who had been held in pre-trial detention for more than a year.

There was still no news regarding the whereabouts of freelance photojournalist Mohamed El Raai on Sunday, four days after he was summoned to the National Security Agency office in the Cairo neighborhood of Shubra al-Kheima on Wednesday. His family has filed missing persons reports with the public prosecutor and the …