Egyptian authorities are abusing counter-terrorism laws to arbitrarily detain a leading businessman and his son in conditions that amount to torture in reprisal for their refusal to hand over company assets, Amnesty International said today.

Amnesty International on Thursday accused Egyptian security agencies of “persistent intimidation and harassment” of human rights defenders as a political tactic to silence them.

Egypt is running a training program for Sudanese police officer with an emphasis on combatting the Muslim Brotherhood in Khartoum.

Authorities have arrested a doctor who appeared in a video that went viral on social media, shown bullying a nurse and forcing him to bow down to a dog, security sources reported.

Egypt is set to start Tuesday trial proceedings against Hossam Bahgat, one of the country’s most prominent human rights advocates, for a tweet criticising alleged electoral fraud.

This report covers a pattern of suspicious killings and probable extrajudicial executions by Egyptian Interior Ministry forces of people who at the moment of their deaths apparently posed no life-threatening danger to security forces or others, and so amounted to deliberate and unlawful killings. In all of the cases documented …

The Egyptian security authorities on Sunday arrested a migration broker believed to have facilitated irregular migration by sea, which, according to preliminary reports, resulted in the drowning of 11 people, Anadolu Agency reported.

Egypt’s Ministry of Interior announced on Monday the killing of two criminals in an exchange of fire with police officers in Assiut, Upper Egypt.

On 1 June Abeer Hassan’s brother left the house to deliver some cash to a colleague, a short trip around the block that should have taken a maximum of 15 minutes.

The Egyptian Network for Human Rights (ENHR) is highlighting the case of Amir Mohsen Hammad Afrifi, who is still in prison seven years after his arrest and forcible disappearance.