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A number of journalists have said they were arrested outside the Zeinhom morgue as they were covering the Muslim Brotherhood killings Wednesday evening, according to the Journalists Against Torture Observatory.
Meanwhile, the state-owned MENA news (...)
The Egyptian authorities have again sealed the Rafah crossing Thursday night, after the planned three-day opening came to an end.
According to state-owned news agency MENA, approximately 1,158 people crossed from Gaza into Egypt during the three (...)
The number of detained journalists in Egypt is currently the highest on record since 1990, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) announced Thursday after it released its new census of imprisoned journalists in Egypt.
Of the 18 journalists (...)
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) supported a call from international rights groups on "the need to ensure accountability for the United States CIA torture programme".
The call was submitted by the American Civil Liberties Union (...)
The Israeli air force struck a target in northern Gaza's Beit Hanoun neighbourhood on Wednesday morning, Israeli and Palestinian sources confirmed.
The Israeli attack came after a missile was fired from Gaza into the Israel-controlled Western Negev. (...)
A group of South Korean activists held a protest in front of the Egyptian embassy in Seoul on Friday in solidarity with detainees and to demand an end to disappearances and executions in Egypt.
Jong Kim, one of the protest's organisers told Daily (...)
Security forces allegedly took Eman Gad from the streets of Sayeda Zeinab on 17 June as she was walking home from work, her family and friends said on Thursday. Gad's whereabouts are still unknown.
Khadija Youssef, one of Gad's close friends, told (...)
The Egyptian Ministry of Interior is responsible for the life and well-being of Hassan Mubarak who was forcibly moved from an intensive care unit in Boulaq public hospital to the near-by Boulaq Police Station, said local human rights organisations (...)
A study conducted in 2014 and released this week found that young people still aspire to migrate, less are interested in joining the Egyptian labour market, and more young women, especially in rural areas, suffer poorer educational outcomes, female (...)
Omar Mohamed was found in an Al-Aqrab Prison detention cell after 10 days of disappearance, his family and friends reported on Thursday.
The prison administration however still denies he is there, but the family received reports from detainees that (...)
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The Lawyers' Syndicate called for a general strike this upcoming Saturday in protest at police brutality, ill-treatment, and violations against lawyers "as they practice their professions".
On Wednesday, a police officer at the Farscur police (...)
The Cairo prosecution renewed the detention for a further 15 days for prominent Al-Azhar cleric Anas Al-Sultan and his brothers, lawyer Mohamed Al-Baker told Daily News Egypt Monday.
Security forces raided and took Al-Sultan and his brothers, (...)
Egypt banned Mohamed Lotfy, the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms' (ECRF) executive director, from travelling to Germany from Egypt on Tuesday.
Lotfy was on his way to Berlin to take part in a roundtable discussion in the German parliament (...)
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Egyptian authorities have once again closed the Rafah border crossing, after a three-day opening in the direction of Gaza earlier this week.
The crossing, a main lifeline for Palestinians in Gaza, was previously completely shut off since early (...)
An Alexandria Criminal Court acquitted the state security officer accused of torturing to death a young man, Sayed Belal, shortly before the 25 January Revolution.
Mohamed Al-Shemy, an officer in the state security investigations department, was (...)
Egyptian authorities are reported to have kept the Rafah border crossing open for a third day in one direction, from Egypt to the Gaza Strip. The crossing has been completely closed since March this year.
An elderly Palestinian woman, Yousra (...)
The Giza Prosecution Office renewed the detention of eight Cairo University students for another 15 days on Thursday pending investigations, the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) said.
Security forces arrested the eight (...)
The Association of Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) condemned the Ministry of Education for cooperating with the security apparatus in not allowing academics to travel without obtaining prior security authorisation.
Faculty of Science (...)
An Alexandria military court issued sentences against 147 defendants, including at least 12 children aged between 15 and 18, according to the National Community for Human Rights and Law.
The Egyptian Foundation for the Advancement of Childhood (...)
Students resigned from the Ain Shams University Student Union, while the faculty of the School of Engineering cancelled exams on Wednesday and Thursday, after student Islam Salah Al-Din Atitu was found dead on a desert road near the Fifth Settlement (...)
Engineering student Islam Salah Al-Din Atitu was found dead on a desert road near the Fifth Settlement district Wednesday morning after security forces purportedly took him from the Ain Shams University campus the day before, according to the (...)
The European Union's military action plans against smuggler networks "should not put the lives and rights of migrants and asylum seekers in jeopardy", Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday in reference to the EU's naval operation set to destroy (...)