At least six teenagers were killed in a fire at a juvenile detention centre in the Al-Marg neighbourhood of the Egyptian capital late last week.

A security source has denied claims circulated on social media that a number of prisoners have gone on a hunger strike in Torah prison.

Egyptian authorities will release 1,686 prisoners to mark Ramadan, including members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood movement, according to reports.

Egypt’s interior ministry said Monday it killed three “terrorist elements” in the Sinai Peninsula suspected of involvement in the execution of a Coptic Christian claimed by an Islamic State-affiliated group.

Egyptian authorities have issued orders to build 35 new prisons in the last ten years, according to a report published by the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) on Sunday, including six ordered built within just the past three months.

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.