EGY - News

Egypt: Arbitrary arrests continue in Egypt - 10 new cases from Kafr Al-Sheikh

EGY - News | 02 February 2010
The Egyptian Security forces continue to suppress any opposition towards the government - often affiliating the detainees to banned organizations or terrorists groups as a pretext for arrest.

Egypt: Student, Mamdouh Diab, arrested, tortured and disappeared

EGY - News | 22 January 2010
When Mamdouh Diab's family visited him in Al Marg al Jadid prison on 5 January 2010, they were informed he was to be transferred to Shabeen Al-Qanater Police Station the same day in order to be processed for his release. However, his family has not received any news of him since and Police officers from the Shabeen Al-Qanater deny ever having received him at the police station. To date, his family have been unable to ascertain his whereabouts.

Egypt: 15 previously disappeared victims from the so-called "Zeitoun Cell" now held at Istikbal Tora Prison

EGY - News | 19 January 2010
According to reliable sources from within Egypt, 15 of the 16 victims from the so-called "Zeitoun Cell" who were arrested on 2 July 2009 (and subsequently enforcedly disappeared), reappeared when they were presented to the Emergency State Security Supreme Court for a hearing on 4 January 2010. They have since been transferred to Istikbal Tora Prison near Cairo. Alkarama had previously submitted their cases to the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary (WGEID) on 19 August 2009 and as a consequence of their reappearance will submit their cases to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) in due course.

Egypt: Mr Djema'a Ramadhan held for one year after UN confirmed arbitrary nature of his detention

EGY - News | 19 January 2010
Mr Djema'a Al-Seyed Suleymane Ramadhan, was arrested on 11 May 1994 from his home. He was detained for more than 15 years following an unfair trialbefore a Military Tribunal, only being released in September 2009. On 9 September 2008, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) adopted opinion 18/2008 confirming Alkarama's submission that Mr Djema'a Ramadhan's detention was arbitrary.

Egypt: Lack of medical care in Egyptian prisons leads to serious risk of death for numerous detainees

EGY - News | 18 January 2010

Egyptian prisons are notorious for their bad conditions of detention, the widespread practice of torture and the arbitrary nature of the detention of many of their inmates. In addition to this, Alkarama has been informing the United Nations human rights mechanisms of a further worrying problem in many Egyptian prisons, whereby detainees suffering from medical conditions at the time of their arrest, are given no medical attention, often putting them at serious risk of death.

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