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The We Record human rights organisation has uncovered that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has built the largest prison in the country's 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 organizations over allegations of receiving foreign funds. Since 2016, authorities have summoned for interr...
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.