Turkey: Turkish Security Agents Arrest Egyptian Activist Ghada Naguib
(Washington, D.C., October 3, 2023): On October 2, 2023, Turkish security agents in civilian clothes arrested Egyptian activist Ghada Naguib...
Read more(Washington, D.C., October 3, 2023): On October 2, 2023, Turkish security agents in civilian clothes arrested Egyptian activist Ghada Naguib...
Read more(Washington, DC, July 18, 2023): At least three leading activists and lawyers have announced their withdrawal from the country's so-called...
The UN Human Rights Council should investigate newly revealed allegations of serious abuses in the notorious Badr prison, said Democracy...
Egyptian authorities should immediately release those imprisoned by a terrorism's court's arbitrary mass sentence of 82 people, including 22 minors,...
Judge Hassan Faird El-Shami, head of Circuit No. 5 of the Cairo Criminal Court, is implicated in the abuse of...
Read moreJudge Shabeeb al-Damarany currently sits on the Cairo Criminal Court. He served as Judge and Chair of the Third Terrorism...
Major General Tarek Marzouk is the Assistant Minister of Interior for Prisons, commonly referred to as the Head of Prisons...
Prosecutor Yehia Omar Marwan. عربيProsecutor Yehia Omar Marwan participated in the Egyptian authorities' crushing of independent voices by throwing peaceful...
Hassiba Mahsoub is a 55 year old engineer and businesswoman and the sister of Mohamed Mahsoub, formerly the Vice President...
Read moreAnas Mohamed El-Beltagy was a 19-year-old student at Ain Shams University preparing to take his semester exams when security forces...
Ahmed Tohamy Abdel Hay has been an assistant professor of comparative politics at Alexandria University's Faculty of Economic Studies and...
Haitham Mohamedain is a labor activist and human rights lawyer who advocates for independent and worker-led trade unions. He has...
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