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Human Rights Reports: Enforced Disappearance, Arrests of Women in October Escalates to Reach 46

Rights group Egyptian Coordinating Committee of Rights and Freedoms’ (ECRF)’s latest statistics on women detained in Egyptian prisons revealed an increase in the number of girls and women arbitrarily detained

Natrun Political Prisoners Start Hunger-Strike Protesting Ill-Treatment

A number of political prisoners in harsh "Wadi Al-Natrun 1" prison started a full hunger-strike in protest of the prison administration’s refusal to respond to their demands, continued brutality, ill-treatment

Human Rights Groups, Public Figures Demand Immediate Release of Political Prisoner Somaya

 The undersigned human rights organizations and public figures hereby condemn the arbitrary arrest and enforced disappearance of Al-Azhar Chemistry graduate Somaya Maher Hazema. She disappeared since October 17, 2017 and

Muslim Brotherhood Denounces Wahat Ambush; Holds Coup Regime Responsible

 The latest clashes in Al-Wahat Al-Bahariya (Giza, 135km from Cairo) Friday, in which dozens of Egyptians were killed, cannot be understood except in the context of the blatant betrayal by

Sisi in One Week: Extensive Variety of Atrocious Crimes, Corruption, Repression

 The coup commander in Egypt, the repressive general Sisi, persists in his deadly spiral of horrific crimes and tremendous aggression. In one week, using his henchmen, his traitorous tentacles across

World Day Against Death Penalty: Politicians, Jurists Call for Moratorium on Executions in Egypt

 Political leaders and human rights activists called for a moratorium on executions, especially against political opponents, in Egypt – lsince death sentences are farcical rulings not based on any law

Under Military Junta Rule: 56 Extrajudicial Killings, 74 Execution Sentences in 3 Months in Egypt

The Arab Organization for Human Rights in Britain (AOHR) issued a report documenting details of human rights violations in Egypt in the third quarter of 2017 – from July 1,

Syria Muslim Brotherhood’s Shura Council Issues Sixth Session Statement

1. We are committed to a political solution in Syria based on national and international principles and the principles of the Syrian revolution, unity of Syrian society and the civil

Aqrab Prison Strike Escalates: Political Prisoners Protest Medical Neglect, Visit Ban

Human rights researcher Osama Nassif said the tragedy of high-security Tura Prison (AKA Aqrab Prison) continues as 80% of detainees join a hunger strike, adding that prison administration is taking

General Sisi Persecutes Detained Human Rights Defenders Amid Calls for their Release

In the military junta’s Egypt, brutal persecution and atrocities against human rights defenders is the way to muzzle them and to pressure organizations that expose and document daily violations by