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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

Anti-Coup Alliance Statement on Eid Al-Fitr and Steadfastness Until Victory

The pro-legitimacy, pro-democracy coalition in Egypt vows to stand steadfast with the masses of Egyptian people, until they defeat the coup and reinstate the President they elected, the Constitution they

Torture and Ill-Treatment of Pro-Legitimacy Detainees at Two Egypt Prisons

The Anti-Coup, Pro-Democracy National Alliance's human rights committee statement on the detention conditions of protesters rounded up in Alexandria and Cairo in recent weeks.

Eye On Torture: Black Bloc Admits Involvement in Attack on July 26 Protests

So-called Black Bloc thugs and security officers admit role in attacks on pro-democracy, pro-Morsi demonstrators at Unknown Soldier site July 26.

Urgent Parliamentary Statement Against Arrest of Egyptian Lawyer in Saudi Arabia

Egypt’s People’s Assembly seeks the facts behind Egyptian lawyer Gizawi in Saudi Arabia, and urges fast action to stop humiliating treatment of Egyptians in the Kingdom.

People’s Assembly Approves Bill to Criminalize All Forms of Torture & Stiffen Punishments

MP Subhi Saleh says Egyptian People’s Assembly has approved draft amendments to criminalize all forms of torture and to streamline and simplify legal procedures.

Muslim Brotherhood Lawyers: More Charges To be leveled Against Mubarak, in Addition to Murdering Demonstrators

If the murder-of-demonstrators case against Mubarak fails to earn him the death penalty, there are many victims of his defunct regime who are willing to bring more charges against him.

Egyptian Parliament Recommends Review SCAF Laws, Compensation for Martyrs of Revolution and Torture, Committee to

The Egyptian People's Assembly Plan and Budget Committee, in its Monday session, headed by Saad Al-Husseini, approved a draft law submitted by Ashraf Badr Al-Din, MP for the Freedom and

Seizing a Historic Opportunity to End Torture in the Middle East and North Africa: Ten

Geneva, 10 December 2011. On the occasion of the UN Human Rights Day, the World Organisation against Torture (OMCT) and fourteen partner organisations from eight countries in the Middle East

Conditions Left over by the Mubarak Regime

A - The state of deterioration and degradation Egypt sunk to in the era of Mubarak and his corrupt coterie is no secret. Corruption became the system, an integrated, comprehensive