Human Rights
Egypt’s human rights abuses: systematic not arbitrary
Opinion
July 24, 2010
Egypt’s human rights abuses: systematic not arbitrary
The exceptional penetration of the Egypt's security apparatus into the state administration is one of the most significant outcomes of…
Protest marks 40 days since Alex slaying
Egypt
July 18, 2010
Protest marks 40 days since Alex slaying
Dozens of protesters gathered in front of the Supreme Judicial Court in downtown Cairo on Sunday to commemorate the death…
Egyptian police ‘tortured to death’ 12 people in 2009, says rights group
Egypt
July 14, 2010
Egyptian police ‘tortured to death’ 12 people in 2009, says rights group
Among widespread and continuing human rights abuses throughout Egypt in 2009, 12 people were tortured to death by police, according…
Protests nation-wide against torture
Egypt
July 9, 2010
Protests nation-wide against torture
Hundreds of Egyptian youth organized a series of protests across Egypt against police torture.The protests were heavily advertized through online…
Security responses: Transparency, fear or spin?
Egypt
July 8, 2010
Security responses: Transparency, fear or spin?
Are the Egyptian authorities, government, prosecutors and the Interior Ministry playing defense? A reading into their recent statements in the…
Gamal Mubarak makes belated statement on Alex slaying
Egypt
July 7, 2010
Gamal Mubarak makes belated statement on Alex slaying
Gamal Mubarak, head of the National Democratic Party (NDP)’s influential policies committee, for the first time commented on the death…
Lawyers in defenestration case denied access to investigations
Egypt
July 7, 2010
Lawyers in defenestration case denied access to investigations
Lawyers representing a man allegedly tortured and thrown by police from the third floor of a police station in the…
Nasr Hamed Abu Zaid: The end of a controversial scholarly legacy
Egypt
July 5, 2010
Nasr Hamed Abu Zaid: The end of a controversial scholarly legacy
Scholar and thinker Nasr Hamed Abu Zaid passed away on Monday morning at 67 in a Cairo hospital. Zaid had…
Police allegedly throw man from 4th-floor balcony
Egypt
July 4, 2010
Police allegedly throw man from 4th-floor balcony
The Cairo-based Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture has accused two police officers from the…
Clinton blasts Egypt for pressuring civil society
Egypt
July 4, 2010
Clinton blasts Egypt for pressuring civil society
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed concern about the state of democracy and human rights in Egypt while speaking…