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State Security’s History of Repression and Torture

Decades of oppression and torture practiced by Security Forces from the successive regimes that ruled over Egypt for more than a hundred years, have competently failed to defend national security

Oldest Ever Egyptian MP: Gamal Abdel Nasser Masterminded Mansheya Incident to Get Rid of Brothers

Egypt's oldest parliamentarian Major Abdul-Aziz Abdul-Rauf said that he resigned from his post as a Major in the Egyptian State Security Service because they oppressed people, confiscated their property and

Rights Group to Prosecute Those Found Responsible for Attacks on Protesters

The Paris-based Arab Commission for Human Rights on Wednesday dispatched a fact-finding committee to Cairo to investigate police violence used against protesters demanding the resignation of Egyptian ex-president Hosni Mubarak,

Former Interior Minister Habib El Adly Accused of Being Involved in Alex Qiddisin’s Church Bombings

Egypt's general prosecutor on Monday opened a probe on former Interior Minister Habib el-Adly's reported role in the New Year's Eve bombing of al-Qiddissin Church in Alexandria in which 24

Mubarak’s Last Gasps

According to the CIA's declassified documents and records, senior CIA operative, Kermit Roosevelt, paid $100,000 to mobsters in Tehran, in early August 1953, to hire the most feared thugs to

Human Rights Group Express Deep Concern on Violence Against Citizens

The undersigned human rights organizations expressed deep concern and condemnation of the vicious attacks on Egyptian civil society organizations, since the uprising of January 25th , calling for democracy.

MB Headquarters Raided and Activists and Journalists Arrested

Day eleven of Egypt’s uprising has witnessed local and foreign journalists, NGO employees, protesters and social workers subjected to a crackdown by plainclothes and uniformed policemen, armed thugs, and pro-Mubarak

Egypt – How Did We Get Here?

History is being made in Egypt. What is happening now is undoubtedly a popular revolution against a dictatorship that has been stifling Egyptians for decades.

Egypt Protests – Changing the Rules of the Game

Egyptians have taken to the streets demanding an end to the 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak and protesting economic hardship and rampant corruption. Demonstrations in Tunisia brought down the

Human Rights Calls for the Dismissal of the Minister of Interior and Senior Leadership of

The Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights demands the dismissal of the Minister of Interior and leaders of the police who issued and implemented decisions to fire on the