Articles for Egypt

Egypt: Ibrahim Moujahid twice tortured now illegally held at Damanhour prison

Ibrahim Mujahid was arrested on 8 March 2010 by security guards of Kwaisna Art Institute while he was putting up posters written by students in support the Al-Aqsa mosque (in Jerusalem). The guards led him to their office where they tied him up and severely beat him all over his body.

On 28 April 2010, Alkarama sent his case to the Special Rapporteur on Torture, requesting that the Egyptian authorities conduct a full and impartial investigation into the acts of torture suffered by Ibrahim Mujahid, to establish who is responsible in order punish the perpetrators.

28 Apr 2010
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Egypt: Mahmoud El Sanussi tortured by police, now under administrative detention

On 29 March 2009, Mohamed El Sanussi Mahmoud was arrested by police officers in Cairo. He was taken to Shobra Al-Khayma police station where he was held without charge for six months and subjected to repeated bouts of torture.

On 27 April 2010, Alkarama sent his case to the Special Rapporteur on Torture requesting an investigation by the Egyptian authorities into the alleged torture, in order to determine who was responsibile and bring the perpetrators to justice.

27 Apr 2010
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Egypt: Nabil Al-Maghraby is Egypt's oldest political prisoner

Alkarama has just received news that former Egyptian intelligence officer, Nabil Al-Maghraby, who was in the reserves during the October 1973 war, is currently Egypt's longest standing political prisoner. He was arrested in 1979, and is amongst the names of those suspected in the assassination of President Anwar Sadat on 6 October 1981.
27 Apr 2010
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Egypt: Fadel Abdullah Hussein murdered at Dier Mawas police station

On 31 March 2010 Deir Mawas investigative police officers, under the supervision of Mohamed Sobhi, illegally arrested a group of individuals from a coffeeshop in Samhan village, Deir Mawas in Al-Minia governorate. Amongst those arrested was Fadel Abdullah Hussein, the coffeshop owner who would later be killed in police custody following a fatal blow to the chest allegedly delivered by Mohamed Sobhi.
14 Apr 2010
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Egypt: Tarek Khidr arrested outside his university - now missing

Tarek Khidr, a student and human rights activist, was arrested on 26 March 2010 outside the main entrance of the University of Alexandria by the State Security Investigation (SSI) services, who took him to an unknown destination. His family have been looking for him ever since his disappearance and have not received any information as to his whereabouts.

Alkarama alerted the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) on 12 April 2010 requesting its urgent intervention with the Egyptian authorities.

13 Apr 2010
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Egypt: 11 students kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused by Munufeya police

On 30 March 2010, as a Munufeya University graduation service came to a close, Egyptian Security Services arrested 11 students outside the gates of the university's Faculty of Electronic Engineering. Thousands of students were attending the service.

Following the ceremony, as student began to leave the university grounds, a taskforce of central security agents, intelligence officers and State Security Investigative (SSI) services suddenly attacked and arrested a group of students including a number of female students.

07 Apr 2010
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Egypt: Despite WGAD Opinion from September 2008, Khirat Al-Shatar and 3 others remain detained; health deteriorating

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.

01 Apr 2010
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Egypt: the arrest of a group of imams, Kafr El-Sheikh March 31, 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

31 Mar 2010
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Egypt: Human rights activist and journalist, Hamdi Taha arrested in Aswan

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.

This is not the first time Hamdi Taha has been arrested.

31 Mar 2010
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Egypt: Egypt ignores release orders for 21 Muslim Brotherhood leaders; issues administrative detention orders

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.
16 Mar 2010
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