Already faced with the prospect of spending several years in overcrowded and often violent jails, Egypt‘s political prisoners are often charged with crimes they allegedly committed while behind bars.

The Public Prosecution urged anyone in possession of footage of the 2014 gang rape alleged to have taken place in Cairo’s Fairmont Nile City Hotel to come forward on Wednesday, pledging confidentiality and protection to witnesses. 

Political science professor Hazem Hosny was released from prison by the State Security Prosecution on Monday after 17 months in remand detention. According to lawyer Khaled Ali, he has been ordered to remain under house arrest as a condition of his release.

On 20 February 2021 Manar Abouelnaga and her son appeared in front of Egypt’s state security prosecution two years after their forcible disappearance. Al-Baraa was just three-years-old.

Rasha Safwat, wife of Colonel Ahmed Konsowa, who announced his plan to run for presidency in 2017, has appealed to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to release her husband from prison, Al Jazeera reported on Sunday.

In January 2016, 14-year-old Mohamed was staying up late studying for midterm exams. One night, unidentified security forces burst into his family’s apartment, stormed his bedroom and upended his desk, driving him away in an unmarked microbus.

An Egyptian administrative court rejected a lawsuit filed by a lawyer known for his support of the government to revoke the citizenship of defendants convicted in terror-related cases.

UN experts have called on the Egyptian authorities to remove Ramy Shaath and Zyad El-Elaimy from their terror list and stop systematically misusing counter-terror powers.

The Egyptian government should reverse its arbitrary and abusive decision, made in December 2020, to revoke the citizenship of political activist Ghada Naguib, Human Rights Watch said today. The Parliament should amend abusive citizenship laws so that they comply with Egypt’s international human rights obligations.

Egypt is grappling with two separate sexual assault cases – one highlighting the steps that have been taken to address the issue and the other underlining monumental failings by authorities.