Latest in Tag: torture Highlight
Latest in Tag: torture
Detainee dies of electrocution
Detainees’ conditions in Egyptian jails worsen
Parties condemn state’s violent practices
ESDP calls for investigation into alleged torture of detainees
Update: Human rights organisations decry alleged ‘savage’ torture and sexual assault of detainees
Prosecutor general releases 55 detainees on hefty bail and stresses there aren’t any “political” detainees in custody

ANHRI decries ‘savage’ torture allegations from detainees
Organisation calls on prosecution to investigate defendants’ torture allegations

NCHR looks into torture reports of revolutionary anniversary detainees
Nation without Torture campaign condemns alleged torture amid Ministry of Interior’s denial of validity of torture accounts

‘I wanted to lie down and die’
New report by Human Rights Watch slams Egypt and Sudan in trafficking and torture of Eritreans

Revolution anniversary detainees reportedly tortured
Detainees’ lawyer says those held at Abu Zaabal prison are subject to “the harshest” detention conditions

Fahmy meets Canadian counterpart
The meeting comes at the sidelines of the Davos World Economic Forum
Video of police brutality ‘baseless’: MOI
Ministry accuses Rassd News Network of fabricating video

Syria photos prove mass torture by Assad regime: report
Syria denies torturing detainees.
Alexandria lawyers group accuses Homeland Security officers of torturing detainees
Association to Defend Alexandrian Detainees names five Homeland Security officers who allegedly tortured detainees in Alexandria Security Directorate

Amnesty highlights human rights violations in Egypt’s draft constitution
The human rights watchdog acknowledges current draft is better despite existing violations

Human rights lawyer blames prosecution for ‘rampaging’ torture in Egypt
Putting an end to torture requires political will, says Negad El-Borai

Judge recuses himself from Al-Beltagy and Hegazy’s trial
Islamist figures accused of torturing two policemen during the now-dispersed Rabaa Al-Adaweya sit-in

Egypt policemen acquitted on torture charges
Three police officers were acquitted from charges of torturing five Islamist militants who were in their custody during the Mubarak rule
Rights group decries case of alleged torture
Alleged torture case demonstrates need for radical police reform, says EIPR

Al-Nour Party condemns reported torture
The party calls for serious investigation into torture reports of detainees

MBC Egypt correspondent assaulted and tortured by police: EOHR
Aslam Fathy claims that he spent a night in detention and was prosecuted without a lawyer for attacking a police officer

Essam Atta remembered, two years on
Sympathisers hold demonstration in memoriam of torture victims in front of Press Syndicate

Constituent Assembly passes articles on rights and freedoms
Assembly holds second closed meeting and votes on drafted articles
Four officers detained for the death of prisoners
Charges of the victims still unknown; human rights groups gathering authorisation from families to represent them in court
Student dies in custody
Ministry of Interior claimed he is in custody and still alive, now claiming that he drowned to death.

Anti-torture campaign calls for defining torture in constitution
Nation Without Torture campaign requests listening session with Constituent Assembly

Foreign ministry responds to allegations regarding Canadian detainees
Ministry claims detainees are facing official charges and denies they were tortured or beaten during detention
‘High Court youth’ suffer behind bars, ECESR report
The four were charged with damaging the High Court building, assaulting High Court employees and “thuggery”; they have spent over a year incarcerated
EOHR condemns killing of Frenchman
French citizen was attacked by cellmates while in custody for breaking curfew

Case of suspected fatal torture by police reported
Many questions remain unanswered over a new case of police brutality

Rights organisation demands investigation into alleged torture of MB leader
Egyptian Organization for Human Rights concerned at Muslim Brotherhood supreme guide’s allegations of torture

Prisoners suffocated on gas, says new report
Forensic Medical Authority report supports interior ministry statements

Six torture cases reported at Rabaa sit-in:MOI
The Anti-Coup Alliance called for “an independent international investigation into everything that is being said regarding violence”