The Egyptian authorities should overturn the harsh prison sentences imposed on March 5, 2023, following an unfair mass trial of 29 men and women solely because of their peaceful activism, Human Rights Watch said today.
A special Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced four veteran human rights activists to prison terms up to 15 years for “terrorism”, several rights groups said.
When Mada Masr submitted registration paperwork in 2018 to license its website in accordance with a new media law, state authorities should have responded within 90 days to confirm or deny the request. However, there was no response.
Three Mada Masr journalists are to face trial in early March on charges of “offense against MPs” from the state-aligned Nation’s Future Party and of “misusing communications channels.”
Today marks three years since Ibrahim, a producer for Al Jazeera Mubasher Channel, was arrested at Borg El Arab Airport in Alexandria on February 22, 2020.
A group of Egyptian human rights organisations are demanding that the government stop forcible disappearances and that authorities carry out independent investigations into perpetrators.
Head of Egypt’s Journalists Syndicate Diaa Rashwan has called for the Public Prosecution to release the journalists who are still detained pretrial as his second term is drawing to a close.
Egyptian judicial authorities renewed the detention of TikTok influencer “Bebo Dumbbell” for 15 days pending investigations into accusations of debauchery and slandering state institutions.
Egypt increased the number of death sentences in 2022, handing out 538 more than the previous year, according to the Egyptian Front for Human Rights.
The Cairo Criminal Court has removed Juhayna owner Safwan Thabet from its terrorist list three weeks after his release along with his son from prison.
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