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Gamal Heshmat: Death Sentences Coup Decisions that End Independence of Judiciary Myth

Another mass sentences farce without due process condemns to death Muslim Brotherhood Chairman Badie along with 682 other Egyptians perceived as dissidents by coup authorities.

Muslim Brotherhood Statement on Political Prisoners Hunger Strike

The Brotherhood urges all Egyptians to take non-violent action in solidarity with 17,000 political detainees who have started a hunger strike to protest unspeakable violations and inhuman conditions.

Dozens of Children Tortured in Coup Detention Centers and Juvenile Jailhouses in Alexandria

In Kom El-Deka, Alexandria, 50 children are tortured in detention in so-called juvenile "care homes", then dispatched to a notoriously harsh juvenile prison in Cairo.

HRM Denounces Arrest and Arbitrary Detention of Mrs Manal El-Shamy With Three of Her Children

Human Rights Monitor (HRM) submitted a complaint to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention regarding the arrest of a mother and three of her children from their house at

Anti-Coup Detainees in Junta Jails Start January 14 and 15 Hunger Strike

Joining the anti-coup, pro-democracy activities, even while held hostage in the junta's jails in Egypt, political detainees go on hunger strike on the days of the sham referendum on the

Helwan Police Station Detainees’ Plea for Help

Under the rule of the current coup regime, Egyptian political detainees suffer unimaginable hardships, and here detainees in a Cairo police station call for help.

Campaign and Initiative… Where is the Kidnapped President?

A number of political movements and public figures opposed to the military coup launch a campaign demanding that the proposed trial of President Mohamed Morsi must be held publicly, with

‘The Egyptian Observatory for Rights and Freedoms’ Slams Abu Zaabal Massacre Trials

Rights group warns that using minor officials as escape-goats and the absence of credible investigations will repeat the catastrophe of frivolous lawsuits against killers of January 25 revolutionaries.

Egypt Lawyer: More than 140 Underage ‘Political Prisoners’ Detained in Coup Jails

El-Zayat, prominent lawyer and head of the ‘National Committee for the Defense of Prisoners of Conscience’, is baffled by the number of juvenile detainees held in the putschists’ prisons in

A Statement from Rabaa Detainees Protests Rights Violations, Hostage-Like Treatment

A statement from Rabaa and Nahda squares detainees, sent Thursday (September 12) from inside a prison in Egypt, describes illegal and inhuman detention conditions, and condemns the silence of Egyptian