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

Egypt’s crackdown on members of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) forewarns of a second wave of branding civil society work as “terrorism”, in a bid to silence the last remaining independent human rights activists in the country.

Egypt’s human rights violations drastically increased in October and November, culminating in at least 57 executions – double the number of those carried out in 2019 – Amnesty International reported on Wednesday.

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.

An Egyptian man who was imprisoned in Egypt for liking a Facebook post of a former presidential candidate returned home to Australia after a ten-month ordeal.

Egypt’s Minister of Justice Omar Marwan said that the Ministry headed to digitizing the litigation system, noting that filing legal cases or suing can be conducted remotely.

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

As human rights groups continue to raise the alarm about the use of the death penalty in Egypt, veteran executioner, Hussein Ashmawy, said he has entered the Guinness World Records for carrying out the highest number of executions in the world.

Amnesty International yesterday renewed its call on Egyptian authorities to “immediately” release prominent human rights defenders detained since last week.