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Egypt: Detainees in Abu Zaabal Prison to hold general strike due to overcrowding and human rights abuses

09/06/2023

A leaked letter from detainees at the Abu Zaabal prison, situated approximately 30 km northeast of Cairo, has brought to light severe violations committed against […]

Joint statement: Egypt turned new Badr prison into ‘human slaughterhouses’

11/04/2023

The undersigned organizations and campaigns express their deep concern over the leaked messages from inside the Badr Prison Complex. The letters reveal horrors committed against […]

Prison bars at Colchester Castle [William Warby/Flickr]

Egypt: New Wadi al-Natrun prison an attempt to beautify, not reverse violations

01/11/2021

Egypt’s launch of the new Wadi al-Natrun prison and its promotion of it to foreign and local observers is part of the state’s propaganda to […]

Egypt does not need more prisons

20/09/2021

The undersigned organizations and campaigns condemn statements by the Egyptian President Abdelfattah el-Sisi, who has denied the existence of human rights violations in Egypt while […]

Egypt: Deaths in custody increase due to deliberate neglect

18/08/2021

The high incidence of deaths in detention centres and prisons in Egypt is evidence of the level of neglect that these detention centres and prisons […]

Egypt: Changing prison authority’s name is ‘propaganda’ as rights violations continue

03/08/2021

Egypt’s Ministry of Interior’s decision to change the name of the Prisons Authority to the Community Protection Authority will do nothing to change the fact […]

Egypt: Prisoner hunger strikes expose the interior ministry’s propaganda

16/07/2021

A number of prisoners of conscience in Egypt have started a hunger strike in protest at the violations they are exposed to and their poor […]

Rabaa Sqaure Dispersal [AFP PHOTO / MOSAAB EL-SHAMY/Flickr]

Egypt: Confirmation of Rabaa death sentences another blow to the politicized justice system

16/06/2021

The undersigned campaigns and human rights organizations condemn the mass death sentences upheld earlier this week by the Cassation Court in the Rabaa Dispersal case, […]

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