Former Egyptian presidential candidate and physician Abdel Moneim Aboul-Fotouh survived a “severe heart attack” in his Cairo prison over the weekend, his son announced.

In the last six months of Mohamed Soltan’s prison sentence, he was placed in isolation in Egypt’s notorious Torah Prison, where he was beaten and tortured mentally and physically every day. “I was completely cut off from the rest of the world, with no access to daylight or sense of …

Egypt on Friday denied claims contained in a New York Times report earlier this month that women who come in contact with the country’s criminal justice system risk sexual abuse during searches by state agencies and individuals, the paper reported.

The Egyptian Interior Ministry announced the new prices for obtaining a passport. Al-Masry Al-Youm has published information on all the required documents and fees for obtaining a passport.

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.