Egypt

Egypt (436)

Sep 29 2017 3:44pm

Urgent Action: Egyptian Human Rights lawyer must be released

Sep 25 2017 6:29pm

Egypt: former presidential candidate given jail term in 'politically-motivated' conviction

Lawyer Khalid Ali, leading rival to President Sisi, given jail term in...

Sep 18 2017 4:09pm

Egypt: acquittal of Irishman Ibrahim Halawa welcomed, but hundreds convicted in mass trial

442 convicted after ‘sham’ proceedings, with sentences ranging from fi...

Sep 11 2017 2:24pm

Urgent Action: Couple in Egypt held in solitary confinement for 66 days

Sep 5 2017 5:24pm

Egyptian authorities' blocking of NGO website condemned

Authorities have blocked 424 websites since May in ‘wave of digital ce...

Aug 15 2017 2:10pm

Taking 1,460 selfies in protest

“It’s almost certainly the first time the Egyptian Embassy has been ...

Aug 14 2017 4:24pm

Urgent Action update: Shawkan still detained after four years in Egypt

Aug 10 2017 3:49pm

Activists to take 1,460 selfies outside Egyptian Embassy in London to highlight plight of jailed photojournalist

One selfie for each day that photographer ‘Shawkan’ has spent in jail ...

Aug 7 2017 10:29am

Urgent Action good news: Egyptian prisoner of conscience released

Aug 2 2017 11:16am

Urgent Action update: More Uighur students in Egypt at risk of forcible return to China