Egypt’s State Security Prosecution released 15 detained politicians, including writer and professor of political science at Cairo University Hassan Nafaa, political activists Hazem Abdel-Azim and Shady El-Ghazaly Harb on Thursday.

Egyptian authorities will release four women activists on bail after they were arrested Wednesday for staging a small-scale protest in the capital calling for the release of prisoners before the novel coronavirus spreads to detention facilities.

Egypt has been “abusing” pre-trial detention to eliminate human rights defenders from society by bringing “terrorism” charges against activists, lawyers, journalists and critics of the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, a report said.

The Egyptian Supreme State Security Prosecution service (SSSP) has ordered the release of 91 people arrested for protesting against the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in September 2019, Egyptian human rights lawyer Khaled Ali announced on Wednesday.

Egyptian media denied yesterday what was published about implementing the death sentence against a former army officer Hisham Al-Ashmawy after a military court convicted him of carrying out “terrorist attacks” against Egyptian police and army forces. Yesterday morning, Saudi Arabian channel Al-Arabiya in addition to Egyptian media including the online website of the …

Egypt‘s chief prosecutor has denied allegations that the police tortured a detained human rights activist and researcher during interrogations.

Egypt’s State Security Prosecution has renewed the detention of human rights lawyer Mohamed Al-Baqer for the tenth time.

Two weeks before jailed former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh reached the two-year legal limit for remand detention, prosecutors charged him in a new case, effectively resetting the detention clock and allowing authorities to keep him locked up without trial for an additional 24 months.

The Supreme State Security Prosecution ordered the imprisonment of former Islamist presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh for 15 days pending investigations on charges of assuming leadership in a terrorist group.

A Cairo criminal court sentenced a former honorary Italian consul to 15 years in jail in absentia on Tuesday for smuggling antiquities out of the country, a judicial source said.