Egypt’s public prosecution has released a statement on the torture videos that were leaked in January to say that detainees used coins to injure themselves.

Three prominent activists have been on hunger strike since late last week in protest of their prolonged remand detention at Tora Prison Complex, their lawyers told Mada Masr.

A prominent opposition activist in Egypt began a hunger strike on Sunday in protest at more than three years in detention, according to a rights group.

Egyptian activist Walid Shawky began a hunger strike to protest against his detention for more than three years, a leading local rights organisation said Sunday.

Egyptian businessperson Ahmed Shaheen has died in custody due to medical negligence, a rights group told Middle East Eye on Saturday.

A lawyer for imprisoned blogger Mohamed “Oxygen” Ibrahim is looking to file a lawsuit before the State Council to compel the Interior Ministry to allow Ibrahim visitation rights in prison, fearing that his mental health has severely deteriorated after being denied any contact with his family for nearly two years.

Days after a video of them complaining about being tortured and ill-treated in a police station, several Egyptian inmates say that they have been beaten, threatened, and banned from all communications with their families by the very officers they had accused of torturing them.

Prominent Egyptian journalist Khaled Dawoud addressed in a Facebook post on Monday President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and other top officials over the fate of Al-Dostour opposition party member Haitham El-Banna.

Egyptians detained in a Cairo police station that is embroiled in an abuse scandal have lost all contact with the outside world, raising fears that they have been forcibly disappeared.

Egyptian human rights lawyer Osama Bayoumi has been “forcibly disappeared” since his detention four days ago in Cairo, a rights group told Middle East Eye on Tuesday.