A human rights organisation has condemned the Egyptian regime’s arrests and detentions of oppositionists’ family members.

Egyptian authorities have arrested eight people following clashes that erupted on Wednesday evening between Muslims and Coptic Christians in the Minya governorate, reported local and foreign media on Thursday.

A mother of three and grandmother of several was blindfolded and beaten repeatedly in detention in Egypt, rights organisation We Record has revealed, before being sexually assaulted and electrocuted on her genitals.

The human rights organisation We Record has documented several unprecedented violations inside Al-Qanater women’s prison.

Egyptian officials physically assaulted a number of female political prisoners at the Qanatir women’s jail on Saturday in an “unprecedented violation,” a rights group reported.

The UN human rights office, the United States, and several European countries on Friday criticised the arrest of three members of a prominent Egyptian rights group after a meeting with diplomats in Cairo.

A prominent Egyptian rights group has said security agents have arrested its executive director, its third member to be taken into custody in less than a week despite international criticism.

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has personally intervened over the case of human rights activists arrested in Egypt after meeting European diplomats, Middle East Eye has learned.

In an escalating crackdown on one of Egypt’s leading human rights groups, National Security Agency officers arrested Karim Ennarah, the director of the criminal justice unit of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, at 2 pm on Wednesday while he was on vacation in Dahab in South Sinai and took …

The arrest of the administrative manager of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), a flagship human rights organization, on Sunday night was a direct response by authorities to a meeting held at the group’s office earlier this month with various European diplomats and ambassadors to discuss the human rights …