The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) yesterday warned of the rapid increase in the number of prisons in Egypt, since the January 25 Revolution in 2011.

The wife of a detained Egyptian journalist Hisham Abdel Aziz has raised concerns over her husband’s deteriorating health condition while he languished in Egypt’s notorious Tora prison.

A group of human rights organizations issued a statement on Wednesday condemning the Public Prosecution’s intransigence in investigating allegations of torture and maltreatment inside Egyptian prisons.

On Tuesday, the Egyptian Interior Ministry denied the use of electrical torture inside Egypt’s prisons, in response to statements from Egyptian activist Mona Seif, sister of detained activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah.

A Middle East rights watchdog has gathered testimonies from families of Egyptian political prisoners detailing authorities’ arbitrary refusal of food items sent to prisoners.

The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR UK) has today condemned the Egyptian regime of General turned President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s denial of adequate medical treatment for detainees in its prisons.

Blogger Abdel Rahman Tarek, known as “Mocha,” ended on Wednesday a 53-day hunger strike in protest of his prolonged remand detention, his lawyer and sister told Mada Masr on Thursday.

Detained journalist Solafa Magdy has accused police officers and personnel at Qanater Prison of physical assault, harassment and intimidation, according to legal complaints filed to several state authorities by Magdy’s defense team on Saturday.

Egyptian authorities intensified their repression of peaceful government critics and ordinary people during 2020, virtually obliterating any space for peaceful assembly, association or expression, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2021.

The Egyptian Interior Ministry announced that it has referred 1,112 cases to Egypt’s Public Prosecution against citizens who were either unable or refused to pay the new LE50 instant fine after violating the government-mandated precautionary measures against COVID-19.