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Egypt: 1,600 people held without trial have detentions extended despite COVID-19 fearsAmnesty International has called on the Egyptian authorities to overturn recent decisions by “terrorism circuit” judges to extend the pre-trial detention of more than 1,600 detainees, many of whom are prisoners of conscience.
Press release 07 May 2020 -
Urgent Action outcome: Musician released on probationOn 13 May 2019, 33-year-old musician Rami Sidky was released on probation after 374 days of pre-trial detention.
Urgent action outcomes 08 Apr 2020 -
Egypt: Call for release of at-risk prisoners amid coronavirus crisisPress release 20 Mar 2020 -
Egypt: former MP given one-year jail sentence for BBC interview‘He is a prisoner of conscience' - Philip Luther
Press release 10 Mar 2020 -
Egypt: 37 death sentences imposed after deeply unfair terrorism trial‘We are calling on the Egyptian authorities to retry the defendants’
Press release 02 Mar 2020 -
Egypt: Eight men executed following military trialDeath sentence handed down after attacks on Coptic Christian churches in 2017.
Press release 24 Feb 2020 -
Middle East in 2019: 'year of defiance' met by shocking state violence - new reportMore than 500 protesters killed in Iraq, and 300-plus in Iran
Press release 18 Feb 2020 -
Egypt: tortured Bologna University student must be releasedHe was tortured at a secret location, including with electric shocks
Press release 10 Feb 2020 -
Giulio Regeni: London and Cambridge vigils for murdered university studentSimilar Truth for Giulio vigils set to take place in various towns & cities in Italy
Press release 17 Jan 2020 -
Egypt: Three journalists arbitrarily detainedThree journalists are in detention under terrorism related charges and for "spreading false news", for their writings.
Urgent action outcomes 23 Dec 2019 -
First Update: Housing rights researcher in detention after enforced disappearanceA missing Egyptian housing rights researcher appeared in a court in Cairo are 167 days enforced disappearance.
Urgent action outcomes 10 Dec 2019 -
Egypt's appointment to UN counter-terrorism role is 'catastrophic'‘The threat this poses can be seen simply by looking at Egypt’s horrendous domestic human rights record’
Press release 22 Nov 2019 -
Egypt: prominent human rights defender tortured as crackdown intensifiesThe interrogator threatened to strangle her with her own sweatshirt
Press release 14 Oct 2019 -
Egypt: two men detained and tortured as children given 'disgraceful' ten-year prison sentencePress release 12 Oct 2019
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Egypt: prominent blogger-activist Alaa Abdel Fattah tortured in detentionActivist stripped and beaten in notorious Tora jail
Press release 10 Oct 2019 -
Egypt: unprecedented mass arrests designed to send message that protests will be crushedMore than 2,300 held in largest wave of arrests since President Sisi came to power
Press release 02 Oct 2019 -
Egypt: world leaders at UN must confront Sisi over protests crackdownPresident Sisi has ‘launched a full-throttle clampdown to crush demonstrations
Press release 24 Sep 2019 -
Egypt: Urgent investigation needed after death in notorious Al-Aqrab prisonHossam Hamed died after allegations of torture in solitary confinement.
Press release 23 Aug 2019 -
Urgent Action: Three politicians arbitrarily detained
Politicians and others have been arbitrarily detained over charges that relate to their peaceful political activities.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Aug 2019 -
Egypt: Rabaa massacre still haunting country - new briefing‘To this day, dozens remain on death row and scores behind bars simply for participating in the sit-in’
Press release 14 Aug 2019
