Egypt’s Public Prosecution ordered, on Wednesday, for the release of two provisional detainees who were being held pending investigations into an infamous gang rape case known as the Fairmont incident. The released have been identified as Seif El-Din Ahmed and Nazly Mustafa.

Egyptian prosecutors opened an investigation into the deaths on Sunday of at least four coronavirus patients at a public Egyptian hospital, after a video of nurses struggling to keep the patients alive was shared widely on social media.

Italian prosecutors in Rome announced on Thursday that they plan to seek charges against four Egyptian security officers over the torture and death of Italian student Giulio Regeni, in a major breakthrough following a lengthy investigation.

Human rights campaigners around the world celebrated when security agencies in Cairo released three leading members of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) on December 3.

Egypt has released three human rights campaigners whose arrests last month triggered widespread international condemnation, their organization said Thursday.

A court session held on Tuesday to rule on the Public Prosecution’s order to freeze the assets of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights was adjourned to December 6, when the judge will issue his verdict, according to lawyer Ragia Omran, a member of EIPR’s defense team.

The Egyptian Public Prosecution and the Italian General Prosecution of Rome issued a joint statement on Monday regarding the latest developments in the 2016 killing of the Italian PhD student, Giulio Regeni, in Cairo.

There was still no news regarding the whereabouts of freelance photojournalist Mohamed El Raai on Sunday, four days after he was summoned to the National Security Agency office in the Cairo neighborhood of Shubra al-Kheima on Wednesday. His family has filed missing persons reports with the public prosecutor and the …

Egyptian Prosecutor-General Hamada al-Sawy on Wednesday informed his Italian counterpart on the procedures and information undertaken so far regarding the murder of Italian PHD student Paolo Regeni.

Egypt’s Public Prosecution on Tuesday imprisoned 16 people for four days over blocking a road in protest against the results of the parliamentary elections in Qena governorate.