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Egypt: repeated torture of a farmer while in secret detention

EGY - News | 08 April 2016

Prison's cells seen from the bottom, closed by barsCredit: Thomas Hawk/Flickr Egyptian Homeland Security raided Mohamed Mohamed Sadiq Ayyad’s house and arrested him on 13 January 2016. Secretly detained for weeks, he was repeatedly tortured before being charged under various accusations, without the assistance of a lawyer. Still detained to date, he was only allowed to see his relatives for few minutes and his health state continues to deteriorate because he is refused medical care. Fearing for his life, his family turned to Alkarama that sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture (UNSRT) to ask the Egyptian authorities to guarantee his mental and physical state and to investigate his reports of torture.

Egypt: new cases of enforced disappearances of students

EGY - News | 04 April 2016

Profile of Mohammed Al Husseini wearing a coat A mosaic of different photos of Ahmed Al Naggar In March 2016, Alkarama sent two communications to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the disappearances in November 2015 and February 2016 of two Egyptian students, Ahmed Ihab Mohamed Al Naggar and Mohammed Mohammed Abdelmotaleb Al Husseini following their arrests by the authorities. While Ahmed was reportedly seen in detention in early February 2016, without official confirmation however, Mohammed’s whereabouts remain unknown to his relatives to date and both students are at high risk of being tortured while in secret detention, either in retaliation against their alleged political affiliations or to force them to confess to crimes.

Egypt: torture and continuous detention of 10 young women for peacefully demonstrating

EGY - News | 01 April 2016

Alkarama has just solicited the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture (UNSRT) regarding the continuous detention of 10 young women - most of whom are students -, since their arrest in Damietta streets on 5 May 2015. While they were peacefully demonstrating, Sara Mohamed Ramadan, Habiba Shata, Esraa Abdo Farhat, Aya Hossam Al Shehata, Fatima Ayad, Mariam Tork, Fatima Tork, Rawda Khater, Sara Hamdi Anwar and Kholod El Fallaghy, were arrested and detained incommunicado for several days during which they were tortured and then indicted. Now detained in Port-Said prison in harsh conditions, they are facing trial and could be sentenced on the basis of documents that they signed without the possibility of reading them.

Egypt: three men tortured and forced to sign confessions while in secret detention

EGY - News | 01 April 2016

Smiling face of Islam ElTohamy Face of Abou Al Amoury Face of Mohamed El Safty On 5 February 2016, the Egyptian authorities arrested three men in El Beheira and Kafr El Sheikh Governorates. While their families were trying to locate them, Abou Obeida Said Ahmed Al Amoury, Islam Ibrahim El Tohamy Ibrahim and Mohammed Gommaa Mahmoud El Safty were in fact secretly detained by the Homeland Security and the police. Tortured for several days, they were forced to sign confessions that they could not read. Accused of being members of an active terrorist group, they now face trial and remain detained to date. Fearing that they could be sentenced on the basis of the confessions they signed under torture, Alkarama solicited on behalf of their families, the United Nations Special Rapporteur against Torture (UNSRT) to ask the Egyptian authorities to guarantee their mental and physical state and to investigate their reports of torture.

Egypt: judicial harassment against Ibrahim and Ahmed Shaaban Youssef, two minor brothers, despite Opinion of UN Working Group

EGY - News | 18 March 2016

Policemen wearing black clothes and a helmet are forming a line Alkarama has just solicited the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) to urgently ask the Egyptian authorities to end the judicial harassment against 14-year-old Ibrahim and 17-year-old Ahmed Shaaban Youssef and to release the latter.

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