Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi issued a decision to pardon a number of prisoners ahead of the Islamic Eid Al-Fitr and Sinai Liberation Day, according to the official gazette.

Egypt’s interior ministry is currently building a new prison complex in Sinai, northeast of the country, enough to accommodate 20,000 inmates, according to a local media outlet.

In a bid to shore up bilateral relations unsettled by Cairo’s ambivalent stance on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry traveled to the American capital of Washington DC on Monday.

The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) on Monday called on the Public Prosecutor to investigate the death of Ayman Hadhoud, an economic researcher and member of the Supreme Authority of the Reform and Development Party, in light of the controversial circumstances surrounding his disappearance and death and the Interior …

Several government bodies have issued vague statements in the wake of last week’s revelation that economic researcher Ayman Hadhoud died in custody at Abbasseya Psychiatric Hospital in early March. Early on Tuesday morning, the Public Prosecution issued a statement regarding what transpired in the time between Hadhoud’s arrest in early …

Egypt’s public prosecution said on Tuesday that an investigation showed “no criminal suspicion” in the death of economist Ayman Hadhoud, who died in a state mental health facility last month.

Omar Hadhoud, the brother of economic researcher Ayman Hadhoud who was discovered on Saturday to have died in custody at a psychiatric hospital one month earlier, was summoned on Monday for questioning by the Public Prosecution, he told Mada Masr.

An Egyptian economist who has been missing since February has died in government custody, a local rights watchdog has said.

Sexual violence against detainees in Egypt is “systemic”, according to a report by The Egyptian Front for Human Rights and Freedom released on Thursday.

Three prominent activists detained in Egypt’s Tora prison ended a hunger strike they had launched earlier in March after the prison’s administration responded to their demands, Mada Misr reported on Thursday, citing the bother of one of detained activists.