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.

The family of detained human rights lawyer Hoda Abdelmoneim have called on authorities to release her on medical grounds due to a reported deterioration in her health condition.

Istanbul has become a destination for many Egyptians since 2013, when many dissidents moved to the city. With the rapid transition to remote work due to COVID-19, another wave of Egyptians has come, even with tension between Cairo and Ankara at a peak.

An international law firm based in London and Istanbul has called on the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances to immediately intervene on behalf of an Egyptian family that has suffered torture in detention.

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

Egyptian authorities have arrested eight people following clashes that erupted on Wednesday evening between Muslims and Coptic Christians in the Minya governorate, reported local and foreign media on Thursday.

The recent security crackdown against a prominent Egyptian human rights group has left observers questioning whether Egypt’s regime is taking advantage of the final months of the Trump administration before an inevitable recalibration of ties under Joe Biden.

Masked assailants fired gunshots at a member of Egypt’s parliament, who is running in the ongoing parliamentary elections in the province of Fayoum, injuring him and his nephew.

An Egyptian court has put almost 30 people on a terrorism watch list and accused them of joining the Muslim Brotherhood.