Torture

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Prisons in Egypt

Sadly human rights violations by Egyptian police and security forces are today all too common and have beginnings well beyond the time of Nasser. This long sordid history of abuse

Police officer served 5 years prison sentence demonstrating sweet justice

Justice is served after the judiciary in the Criminal Court in Alexandria announced the 5 year sentence for Police officer Akram Soliman. Investigations proved that the officer had inflicted bodily

Egypt’s Next Unelected President?

It is always amusing to see how authoritarian regimes endow themselves with the trappings of democracy – a party, parliament, “elections” – as if they somehow confer legitimacy to otherwise

Subjugation causing oppression

In the Indian occupied Kashmir human rights violations by Indian occupation forces is a routine matter. No day passes calmly. Cries, protests and demonstrations by the affected and sufferers are

Egypt: Eight university students held incommunicado – fears of torture

Egyptian State Security Investigation (SSI) forces arrested eight students on 28 October 2009 on accusations of membership to the Muslim Brotherhood - they were held for three days incommunicado at

Human rights center vows to sue Israeli leaders as war criminals everywhere

The Gaza-based Palestinian center for human rights has vowed Saturday that it would relentlessly work to prosecute Israeli leaders accused of committing war crimes against the Palestinian people even before

A parliamentary question on the hidden files of torture

Dr. Hamdi Hassan, Assistant Secretary-General of the Muslim Brotherhood Parliamentary bloc, aimed a question to the Prime Minister and Ministers of Justice and the Interior, On the report which cleared

October harvests an overall increase in the number of detentions, arrests against MB.

Members of the Muslim Brotherhood Movement in October witnessed the continuing aggression and injustices with more than 115 detentions.

AOHR: Human rights situation in Egypt worsens

A report issued by the Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) revealed that cases of torture in Egypt has reached an “unbearable” point and has become a “method practiced” at

International Artists unite in an initiative to end illegal US detentions in Guantanamo Bay.

The petition organized by the Centre for National Security has collected signatures from pop, rap, heavy metal, contemporary artists and former guards from the Guantanamo Camp in an effort to