enforced disappearance

January 14, 2022

Sisi responds to question about number of political detainees, enforced disappearances in Egypt

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi responded to a question from a foreign journalist about the criticism of the human rights situation…

February 28, 2018

Egypt’s Prosecutor General Nabil Sadek ordered on Wednesday prosecution lawyers across Egypt to monitor media outlets and social media platforms to…

February 27, 2018

A young Egyptian woman which a recent BBC report alleged had been “forcibly disappeared” in Egypt appeared on television on…

February 26, 2018

In response to a recent visual and written BBC report entitled ‘The shadows over Egypt’, which addresses the country’s human…

November 22, 2017

International rights organization Human Rights Watch is urging Egypt and the United Arab Emirates to reveal the whereabouts of an…

July 13, 2016

Egypt's police have been implicated in an "unprecedented spike" in enforced disappearances since early 2015 aimed at quashing dissent, Amnesty…

March 19, 2016

The United Nations has held a session in Geneva to discuss the human rights situation in various countries, including Egypt.…

March 6, 2016

Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar said on Sunday that claims of forced disappearances taking place in Egypt are false, according…

February 1, 2016

An activist lawyer reported that a missing victim of enforced disappearance allegedly taken by security authorities has been found dead. Halim…

January 17, 2016

The Interior Ministry announced on Sunday that it had informed the National Council for Human Rights of the whereabouts of…