Human Rights Monitor announced recording 100 cases of extrajudicial killings that took place in Egypt during the first quarter of 2020.

The UN human rights chief called on Egypt to release political prisoners and other non-violent offenders in an effort to combat the spread of the coronavirus in overcrowded detention facilities.

A former presidential candidate in Egypt has called on President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to release detainees and prisoners of conscience and form a committee of experts to implement measures to protect citizens and the economy during the coronavirus crisis.

Medical staff imprisoned in Egypt have offered to work in their country’s hospitals for the duration of the emergency brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. The offer came in the form of a letter smuggled out of an Egyptian prison on Sunday.

The US State Department recently floated the idea of cutting a significant portion of Egypt’s $1.3 billion annual military aid over US citizen Mustafa Kassem’s death in Egyptian detention in January, Foreign Policy reported on Tuesday.

An independent Egyptian campaign is calling for the release of more than 1,000 imprisoned doctors and health-care professionals to help in the country’s fight against the spread of the coronavirus.

The United Nations’ human rights body has officially thrown its weight behind a campaign to protect those in detention from the COVID-19 pandemic by demanding that governments worldwide release prisoners of conscience, low-risk offenders as well as older detainees or those with underlying health conditions.

The Working Group on Egypt* calls on the U.S. government to seek the immediate release of American citizens and permanent residents wrongfully detained in Egypt, who are now in imminent danger due to COVID-19. The United States should also call for the release of the tens of thousands of Egyptians …

Egyptian police, National Security Agency, and military officials arbitrarily arrested, forcibly disappeared, and tortured children as young as 12 while prosecutors and judges turned a blind eye, Human Rights Watch and the rights group Belady: An Island For Humanity said in a report released today.

Egyptian authorities released a prominent political activist on Friday amid widespread calls for Cairo to let thousands of others go free to prevent the novel coronavirus from spreading among the prison population.