police torture

Human Rights Watch has slammed Egyptian authorities for deciding to close down an NGO assisting victims of torture over unspecified…

Egyptian authorities have ordered the closure of a prominent local non-governmental organisation that documents alleged human rights abuses and treats…

A police officer in Egypt's eastern city of Ismailia has been sentenced to eight years in jail for beating a…

Ismailia top prosecutor Islam Hamza renewed the detention of First Lieutenant Mohamed Ibrahim for 15 days pending investigation over charges…

Two police officers were sentenced on Saturday to five years in jail by an Egyptian court for torturing a lawyer…

A group of Egyptian NGOs slammed human rights violations by Egypt’s Interior Ministry, which saw a number of citizens subjected…

Egypt’s General Prosecutor Nabil Sadeq has referred nine police officers from Luxor to criminal trial over charges of torturing a…

A digital media freedom advocacy group has dismissed the Interior Ministry’s response to recent incidents of fatal torture of detainees…

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Thursday that “individual” incidents of detainee torture by police should not be generalized as an…

Deaths inside Egyptian prisons, due to torture and medical negligence, stood at 13 in November alone, a NGO said Wednesday,…