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GENEVA (15 July 2021) – A UN expert today expressed dismay at the continued widespread arrest and extended pre-trial detention of human rights defenders in Egypt, saying activists have been detained without warrants, held incommunicado and then accused of multiple spurious offences. “Exercising ones right to freedom of expression, association or peaceful assembly is not a crime. Everyone has the right to promote and protect human rights. There is no justification for the actions...

A picture taken during a guided tour organized by the Egypt’s State Information Services shows a mounted police officer on his horse in Tora prison, Cairo, 11 November 2019, MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP via Getty Images Five leading human rights organizations in the country call for the urgent implementation of seven necessary measures to end the unprecedented deterioration in human rights. This statement was originally published on anhri.info on 4 May 2021. Five Egyptian human r...

Egypt releases two journalists after international outcry Solafa Magdy and her husband Hossam el-Sayyad had been held in pre-trial detention for 16 months over their journalism work Solafa Magdy (L) and Hossam el-Sayyad (R) were released on Wednesday (Facebook) By Published date: 14 April 2021 13:38 UTC | Last update: 5 sec ago Egyptian authorities released journalists Solafa Magdy and her husband Hossam el-Sayyad on Wednesday after mo...

3 minute read A picture taken during a guided tour organised by the Egyptian State Information Service shows inmates resting in their cell at Borg el-Arab prison, near the city of Alexandria, 20 November 2019, MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP via Getty Images A new report from the Arab Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) reveals how Egypt built dozens of jails since the January 2011 revolution to keep thousands of prisoners, including roughly 65,000 prisoners of conscience, behind bar...

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) yesterday warned of the rapid increase in the number of prisons in Egypt, since the January 25 Revolution in 2011. [caption id=attachment_...

Egyptian regime builds 35 prisons since 2011 Egyptian authorities have built 35 new prisons in just 10 years, despite increasing demands from human rights organisations to release political detainees and improve human rights conditions, according to a report by an Egyptian rights group. The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said on Tuesday that the massive expansion in prison infrastructure in Egypt since the outbreak of the January 2011 revolution “did not contribute to the...

Published date: 16 March 2021 09:49 UTC | Last update: 1 week 2 days ago Egyptian free speech advocates are expressing concern that the fate of detained media professionals is being used as a campaigning card ahead of the midterm elections of the Journalists Syndicate, the independent guild of the nations newspaper writers. "Some of the candidates are putting pressure on the government to release the journalists put in jail on fabricated and laughable ...

February 25, 2021 at 1:15 pm | Published in: Africa, Egypt, News Ramy Shaath (L) [AmnestyAR/Twitter, Zyad El-Elaimy (R) [haythamabokhal1/Twitter] February 25, 2021 at 1:15 pm The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information has gathered testimonies from the families of political prisoners which show they are denied simple food items such as bread and fruit, reports t he New Arab. One of the testimonies was from Alaa Abdelfattahs mother: "They [the prison authorities] refused to take wipes, c...

Neoliberal Authoritarianism in Egypt Yanis Iqbal The whiplash of authoritarianism is being ruthlessly used in Egypt. On January 6, 2021, Ahmed Khalifa, social news editor of Egypt 360 website, was arrested after publishing a series of reports on workers’ legitimate protests. He was falsely charged with joining a terrorist group and spreading fake news, and remains in detention to date. Before his arrest, Khalifa published articles about strikes at the state-owned ElDelta Company for Fertilize...

by Yanis Iqbal / February 8th, 2021 The whiplash of authoritarianism is being ruthlessly used in Egypt. On January 6, 2021, Ahmed Khalifa, social news editor of Egypt 360 website, was arrested after publishing a series of reports on workers’ legitimate protests. He was falsely charged with joining a terrorist group and spreading fake news, and remains in detention to date. Before his arrest, Khalifa published articles about strikes at the state-owned ElDelta Company for Fertilizers and Che...