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Interior Ministry Threatens to Kill Hunger-Striking Political Detainees

As Aqrab political prisoners continue a hunger-strike, protesting extreme ill-treatment, humiliation and medical neglect, junta officials threaten extra-judicial executions of strikers.

Human Rights Organization Blasts Coup Security Arrest, Detention Campaign Across Egypt

Junta forces continue a ferocious war on all those perceived as opponents of the illegitimate regime, grabbing people, especially youth, from their homes, streets, even school exam rooms – deliberately

Torture Fears in Qena General Prison as Inmate Badly Maimed by New Chief

A notoriously brutal prison officer causes serious concerns torturing and badly injuring an inmate, after getting a suspended sentence for torturing another to death.

After Causing Aqrab Detainee Permanent Disability, Prison Administration Threaten Him with Death

Vindictive junta jail management at notorious Aqrab Prison maim Mossaad Abu-Zeid, causing him permanent paralysis, then tell him to shut up or else…

Aqrab Detainees’ Families Association Protests Notorious Jail’s Absurd Visiting Rules

Families of political prisoners held hostage by junta authorities in harsh high-security jails complain that visits were illegally banned for long months on end, and so were blankets, medicines and

Plea from Fateh Mosque Incident Detainees

The Fateh Mosque clashes (August 16, 2013), happened just after the criminal military coup in Egypt, where junta forces attacked thousands of protesters in Fateh Mosque, killing hundreds and arbitrarily

Aqrab Detainee Families’ Unending Suffering

Families of detainees held at notorious Aqrab Prison complain of totally absurd conditions and inhuman violations during visits – when those are allowed.

Anti-Coup Youth Movement Vows Return to Liberty Squares, Crushing Protest Wave

Egypt's youth against the coup movement urges all patriots to join an escalating revolt that should pave the way for a decisive victory over the coup regime in January 2016.

Statement from Detained Doctor Ibrahim Al-Yamani’s Family

After a hunger strike that lasted more than 574 days in junta jails, the longest in Egyptian prison history, Dr Yamani's health suffers tremendously.

Rights Organization Condemns Continued Detention of Egypt Women

Afro-Arab Center for Freedoms and Human Rights slams the military coup regime in Egypt for its relentless campaign of arbitrary arrest and detention of Egyptian girls and women for political