There was still no news regarding the whereabouts of freelance photojournalist Mohamed El Raai on Sunday, four days after he was summoned to the National Security Agency office in the Cairo neighborhood of Shubra al-Kheima on Wednesday. His family has filed missing persons reports with the public prosecutor and the …
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Egypt using special terror courts to silence dissent, UN experts say
UN experts have accused Egypt of using special terrorism courts to imprison human rights defenders and silence dissent, with the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi “gravely endangering” activists’ lives by imprisoning them during the pandemic.
Read More »Egyptian Journalist Basma Mostafa Released after Arrest in Luxor
Update: After this article was published, Egypt’s Public Prosecution announced that the Prosecutor-General had ordered the release of Basma Mostafa after she was questioned.
Read More »Journalist Basma Mostafa disappears in Luxor, then brought before State Security Prosecution
Journalist Basma Mostafa went missing on Saturday while doing reporting in Luxor, the independent news website Al-Manassa reported in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Read More »State Security Prosecution keeps two activists in detention with fresh charges
State Security Prosecution renewed the detentions of two activists over the weekend by filing new charges against them.
Read More »Egypt: Activist Sanaa Seif, sister of imprisoned Alaa Abdel Fattah, abducted in Cairo
Prominent Egyptian activist Sanaa Seif has been abducted outside the prosecutor-general’s office in Cairo, according to a relative.
Read More »Egyptian authorities to release 91 ‘Palacegate’ protesters as thousands more languish in detention
The Egyptian Supreme State Security Prosecution service (SSSP) has ordered the release of 91 people arrested for protesting against the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in September 2019, Egyptian human rights lawyer Khaled Ali announced on Wednesday.
Read More »Egypt: 8 executed in one day
Eight men were executed yesterday in Egypt in what is thought to be the first death sentences carried out in the country so far in 2020. The defendants were among 17 men who had been sentenced to death in a military court in May 2019 and accused of attacking three …
Read More »Egypt: media denies execution of Hisham Al-Ashmawy
Egyptian media denied yesterday what was published about implementing the death sentence against a former army officer Hisham Al-Ashmawy after a military court convicted him of carrying out “terrorist attacks” against Egyptian police and army forces. Yesterday morning, Saudi Arabian channel Al-Arabiya in addition to Egyptian media including the online website of the …
Read More »For 10th time, Egypt renews pre-trial detention of rights lawyer
Egypt’s State Security Prosecution has renewed the detention of human rights lawyer Mohamed Al-Baqer for the tenth time.
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