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Student Hammam Waleed Ruqiyah Dies under Torture

Informed sources in the Syrian capital, Damascus, have reported that Hammam Waleed Ruqiyah, a student, was arrested from his town, Jayrud, in a rural province in Damascus three months ago.

Escalating harassments of MB supporters

Supporter of an MB candidate for parliamentary elections in Cairo, Ibrahim el-Sayed el-Sayed, was severely tortured after his arrest yesterday by security officer, Mohamed Sameer. He was tortured to provide

Egyptian Coalition Takes the Case of Somaya Ashraf to WashingtonPost

The Coalition of Egyptian Organizations in North America condemns the brutal attacks on Azhar student, Somaya Ashraf, who was beaten by university guards and security last week.

Israel Torture Palestinian Children by Electric-Shocking

Defence for Children International (DCI) Palestine Section (DCI/Palestine) "is a national section of the international non-government child rights organisation and movement (dedicated) to promoting and protecting the rights of Palestinian

Israel’s Persecution of Ameer Makhoul

At any time, from 7,000 - 12,000 or more Palestinians are politically persecuted and imprisoned, including young children.

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.

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.

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

Activists protest in solidarity with Khaled Saeed and Mohamed Turk

National and political activists organized a protest in Alexandria in solidarity with the family of Khaled Saeed Alexandria's torture victim and Mohamed Saad Turk, a student who has been missing