Articles for Egypt

Egypt: Where are the results of '9/9 demonstrators' investigation?

Giza-police-headquarter On 23 October 2011, the Supreme State Security Prosecution referred 76 defendants, who were arrested in the events outside the Saudi Embassy, to the Supreme State Security Emergency Court.

‏The prosecution did not disclose any information about the killing of peaceful demonstrators by the Central Security Forces and Military Police so far.

03 Nov 2011

Egypt : Arrest and torture of Mr Al Sayed

On 30 June 2011, Mr Al Sayed was arrested at his home by agents of the Criminal Investigation Branch of the Police, who were dressed as civilians. He was not presented with an arrest warrant nor was he given a reason for his arrest at the time.

Mr Abou Al Maaty AL SAYED was directly taken to the Farag Police Station, where he was subjected to various acts of torture at the hands of two agents of the Criminal Investigation branch, Ali Maher and Saïd Chaarwy, who forced him to undress and shaved his hair, eyebrows and moustache.

20 Jul 2011

Egypt: Al Aswani's life is in danger in the prison of Lyman Tura.

Alkarama has requested the Egyptian authorities immediately release political prisoner Mohammad Al Aswani. Mr Al Aswani has spent more than thirty years in prison, arbitrary detained due to series of unfair trails which were made possible due to the unconstitutional emergency law in force at the time.

Mr. Mohammad Mahmud Salih Al Aswani (aged 60) is one of the oldest political prisoners in Egypt. He has been detained for close to 31 years and he remains behind bars in the high security prison of Lyman Tura.

11 Jul 2011

Maikel Nabil Sanad was arrested 28 March 2011 at his home for having criticized the army on his blog. He was the object of an expedited trial and was convicted 11 April 2011. Mr. Sanad was sentenced to three years imprisonment and a fine.

14 Jun 2011

Alkarama has learned that the Egyptian authorities released Mr. Nabil El-Maghribi on June 2011.

14 Jun 2011

Egypt: The authorities must investigate the torture to which peaceful demonstrators in front of the Israeli Embassy were subjected

Alkarama for Human Rights in Geneva has stated that the Egyptian authorities must work on investigating the instances of torture to which peaceful demonstrators in front of the Israeli embassy were subjected in the middle of last month after Army and Central Security forces came in to disperse the demonstrators.

On 15 May thousands of Egyptian youth and political activists, on the anniversary of the Nakba and the so-called Third Intifada Day, went to protest peacefully in front of the Israeli embassy, mainly by shouting out calls for Palestinians' due rights.

06 Jun 2011

Egypt – Khairat Al Shatar and co-detainees released

Yesterday, 3 March 2011, Mohamed Khairat Al Shatar, the 60 year old businessman and leading figure in the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, was released from Tora Prison in Cairo. He had been sentenced to 7 years in prison in a grossly unfair trial before Cairo's Military court.

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention had stated in September 2008 that the detention of Mr Al Shatter and those detained with him, was arbitrary and that they should be released.

04 Mar 2011

Egypt: 43 Alkarama cases raised in Committee against Torture List of Issues

Alkarama commends the fact that a number of its most serious cases were raised in the Committee against Torture's List of Issues on Egypt.

The Committee against Torture is mandated to periodically review implantation of the rights contained in the international Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, to which Egypt acceded on 25 June 1986.

25 Feb 2011

Egypt: 303 confirmed deaths since 25 January uprising

Alkarama has collected precise details regarding the deaths of 303 people during the recent protests in Egypt. These deaths were a result of the use of excessive force by members of the security forces and armed civilians instructed by the authorities to use force against pro-democracy demonstrators.

Starting on 25 January 2011, Egypt erupted in mass peaceful protests calling for democratic change and the immediate resignation of the President Hosni Mubarak. After 18 days of protests, he resigned and turned over all power to the military on 11 February 2011.

21 Feb 2011

Repression in Egypt: Military police and pro Mubarak groups arrest 10 members of local human rights NGOs and members of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch

At 15 o'clock Egyptian time, Military Police accompanied by unidentified men in civilian clothes entered the offices of the Hisham Mubarak Law Center in Souk Al Tawfiqia street, Cairo, and arrested more than 20 members of Egyptian and international NGOs. These people were members of the Committee for the Defense of the Egypt Protesters. As they were arrested they were beaten by the men taking them away, and their phones and other office equipment was confiscated.

Those arrested include:

03 Feb 2011