Human Rights in Egypt

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Turning a Blind Eye to Egypt

Since President Obama’s Cairo speech, his administration has been disturbingly quiet in word and deed about the Egyptian government’s repression of democracy.

Government Ministers and officials face lawsuit for torture of citizen

State security officials continue to abuse the 'emergency law' torturing citizens and confiscating their belongings while detaining them indefinitely.

MB offshoot in Jordan calls for the release of Jordanian detainees in Egypt‏

Jordan's MB offshoot leader, Hamza Mansour, called on the Jordanian government to seek the release of Mohamed Hesham Ismail Abu Ghazala and Juma Abdullah al Talha who are currently detained

Egypt: Mohamed Oda latest victim of Police abductions

State security forces in Ismailia abducted its latest victim on June 18 and his family has since been searching for him.

US rights groups accuse Egypt of abusing its UNHRC voting rights

A report committed to assessing the 12th through 14th sessions of the UNHRC, Freedom House described Egypt as an "authoritarian regime" which continued to bring political pressure to bear on

Egypt: Security detains activist involved in ElBaradei campaign

Cairo's institute for human rights studies in a statement asserted that Sources claimed that eyewitnesses saw activist Amr Salah seized outside his home and pushed into a vehicle with dark

Parliamentarians and human rights activists demand gov’t to end facebook monitoring

In a recently published comment, Dr. Hamdi Hassan from the Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc stressed that the Egyptian Ministry of Interior's recently stepped up monitoring of the popular web site

Ikhwanweb: Freedom and democracy are more important than Laila ElBaradei’s bikini

Today, rumor and gossip feed a press and public hungry for scandalous tales. Shedding light on this thought is the emergence of a new campaign initiated by an anonymous individual

Egypt’s President urges public to participate in elections

President Hosni Mubarak has called on the Egyptian citizens urging them to participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections and cast their votes.

Interior Ministry accused of abducting activist’s brother

The Legal Committee of the April 6 Youth Movement submitted a complaint to Attorney General, Abdel Magid Mahmoud, accusing two officers in the State Security Department in the Abu Zabal