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The Egyptian government initiated at least five Emergency State Security Court trials against high-profile human rights defenders, activists, and

Since 2014, when President Abdul Fatah al-Sisi took power, Egyptian courts have sentenced some 3,000 people to death according to the Arab Network for Human Rights Information, an independent organisation that documents human rights violations in the Middle East and North Africa. Innocence or guilt no longer appears to play a role.

Researchers and academics in Egypt risk being arrested, prosecuted, or placed in arbitrary pretrial detention, a report by the Arab Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has warned. Accordin...

Egypt will host the ninth session of the Conference of the States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption in Sharm El-Sheikh from Dec. 13-17.

CAIRO: Egypt will host the ninth session of the Conference of the States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption in Sharm El-Sheikh from Dec. 13-17. The conference will bring together member states, MPs, international, regional and non-governmental organizations, civil society and the private sector to discuss issues related to combating corruption. The UN expects the

The We Record human rights organisation has uncovered that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has built the largest prison in the countrys modern history, an indication that the Sisi regime ...

El régimen Talibán busca arrasar con la dignidad de las mujeres. | Carla Humphrey

Close Case 173, Lift Arbitrary Restrictions Human rights activist Gamal Eid is seen at a court in Cairo, March 24, 2016.  © 2016 Reuters / Asmaa Waguih (Beirut) – Egyptian authorities have summoned at least five prominent human rights defenders during July 2021 for questioning as part of a decade-old criminal investigation, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities have used Case 173 of 2011 to arbitrarily prosecute leading rights defenders and organiz...

Clutching his passport and ticket to Seattle, Waleed Salem had a sinking feeling he would be prevented from boarding his flight from Cairo because of his academic research. His hunch proved right. The political science doctoral candidate at the University of Washington had already tried to fly out in May last year to see his 13-year-old daughter but authorities confiscated his

The 17th General Assembly of the Arab Network of National Human Rights Institutions has elected H E Dr Ali bin Smaikh Al Marri,  as President of the Network in its 2021-22 session, and the National Human Rights Committee in Mauritania was chosen to assume the presidency of the Arab Network in its 18th session for the year 2022-23.