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Joint UN submission by rights groups exposes endemic torture and appalling conditions in Egypt’s prisons Harrowing testimonies of systematic torture continue being too frequently heard as the date for Egypt’s …
300 UN recommendations spurned by the Egyptian government; 12 demands must be urgently implemented before next month’s UPR
Egypt: Newly released rights report details direly declining human rights situation since 2014Egypt’s human rights situation is at its worst since 2014, as corroborated by a newly released report by …
Like a Fire in a Forest: ISIS Recruitment in Egypt’s Prisons
Egypt’s prisons are incubators of extremists, new report warns The Cairo Institute of Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) released today 8 May 2019 the Arabic translation of Like a Fire in …
Report: Civilians hastily executed without due process protections by Egyptian military courts
Today October 15, six independent rights organizations released a new report as part of the campaign to end capital punishment in Egypt. The report, “Military Execution,” examines the state-sponsored killing …