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Egypt - Latest Press Releases
Egypt: the arrest of a group of imams, Kafr El-Sheikh March 31, 2010
EGY - News | 31 March 2010
On 28 March 2010, Egypt's Interior Ministry ordered the administrative detention of following three Imams of mosques belonging to the Egyptian Ministry of Awqaf:
1. Sheikh Abdul Fattah Farag - Bila Center
2. Sheikh Abdul Muqtadir Abdul Karim Abdul Muqtadir - Al-Nitaq village
3. Sheikh Abdullah Hammad - Al-Kafr Al-Jadid
Egypt: Human rights activist and journalist, Hamdi Taha arrested in Aswan
EGY - News | 31 March 2010
Repressive measures against journalists and human rights activist have now become common currency in Egypt, where neither domestic nor international laws are respected. The latest victim of this quandary is Hamdi Taha, a 50 year-old journalist from Aswan who was arrested on 27 March 2010 after his home was raided at dawn by plain clothed State Security forces and the Central Security services. During the raid they terrorized his family members and locked them in their bedrooms.
Egypt: Despite WGAD Opinion from September 2008, Khirat Al-Shatar and 3 others remain detained; health deteriorating
EGY - News | 01 April 2010
In September 2008, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD), a group of independent experts mandated by the Human Rights Council to investigate situations of people detained illegally, adopted Opinion 27/2008 regarding the case of Khirat Al-Shatar and 26 other individuals detained in Egypt. The Working Group found their detention to be arbitrary and called on the Egyptian Government to release all those still in detention. Nineteen months later, Khirat Al-Shatar, now aged 59 and suffering from serious health problems, remains detained in Tora prison in Cairo, along with 3 other individuals mentioned in this Opinion.
Egypt: Egypt ignores release orders for 21 Muslim Brotherhood leaders; issues administrative detention orders
EGY - News | 16 March 2010
On Monday 15 March 2010, District Prosecutors ordered the release of 21 Muslim Brotherhood leaders, who were arrested last Friday 12 March 2010 following announcements of their candidatures in Egypt's upcoming November 2010 parliamentary elections. Following the Prosecutors' release orders, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior immediately issued administrative orders for their arrest - orders issued by the executive branch of the government, as opposed to the Judiciary, and therefore without any legal basis. Alkarama condemns this use of administrative detention to detain political opponents, and calls for the immediate release of these 21 individuals.
Egypt : 42 electoral candidates and 145 protestors arrested in one day
EGY - News | 12 March 2010
42 Muslim Brotherhood leaders were arrested from their homes earlier this morning. After Friday prayers today, 53 protestors were arrested outside Abu Magda Mosque in Al-Ismaliya and 70 more in Maidan Al-Sharqiya, of which eight are women, following demonstrations against the blockading Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem by Israeli forces earlier today.
Egypt: SSI in Fayoum terrorize Al-Baradei supporter
EGY - News
- 06 March 2010
Egypt: FREED - Ahmed Douma released 18 days after completing sentence
EGY - News
- 23 February 2010
Egypt: Ahmed Douma remains in custody despite completing prison sentence
EGY - News
- 18 February 2010
Egypt: Mohamed Atef Ibrahim, 20, dies after being tortured
EGY - News
- 06 February 2010