The United Nations Human Rights Committee will hold a two-day session this week to examine the Egyptian government’s implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The Egyptian authorities should increase transparency by making essential figures about the country’s detainee population public, nine organizations said today. The figure should include how many people have been kept in custody in recent years under the nationwide crackdown on dissent.
Egypt’s foreign minister Sameh Shoukry arrived in Turkey on Monday to show solidarity with the quake-hit country, in the first high-level visit from Egypt since relations between Ankara and Cairo started to improve after years of friction.
Reactions continue to letters from prisoners, which recorded the violations and the intensified suffering of hundreds of detainees in Badr Prison for Reform and Rehabilitation, with letters mentioning some detainees committing suicide.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has arrived in Damascus in what is the first visit by a top Egyptian envoy to Syria since its civil war began in 2011 and another sign of possible warming ties between President Bashar al-Assad and Arab states.
Mohamed Badie, the detained leader of Egypt’s largest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, has begun a hunger strike inside his cell at a new prison in protest against mistreatment and medical negligence, a rights group said on Saturday, citing a leaked letter from prison.
Marsad Egypt Egyptian Security Sector Observatory