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The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) on Wednesday obtained a ruling from the Supreme State Security Court lifting a…

Authorities have recently released a number of political activists and prisoners of conscience in a bid to improve Egypt’s international…

The US Senate has referred to its Foreign Relations Committee a draft resolution calling on Egypt to abolish its 29-year-old…

Among widespread and continuing human rights abuses throughout Egypt in 2009, 12 people were tortured to death by police, according…

Facebook users interviewed Ali Qassem, uncle of slain Alexandrian youth Khaled Saeed, about the details of his nephew's death and…

In a joint statement issued on Wednesday, 12 local and international human rights organizations--including Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty…

Security authorities blocked a demonstration yesterday in Tahrir Square called by the 6 April Youth movement to protest the murder…

Khaled Said, a 28-year-old man from Alexandria was beaten up to death by two policemen as he refused to give…

Egyptian National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) Secretary-General Mahmoud Karem said the council's position vis-a-vis the longstanding emergency law had…

A new report issued by rights watchdog Amnesty International has charged that the Egyptian government continues to use the powers…