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Clashes between military forces and protesters in Abbasiya, May 4,2012.Clashes erupted when protesters attempting to exceed barbed wires, which left injuries but no deaths.
Police torture continues in Meit Ghamr case says Amnesty
Abdel-Rahman Hussein 03 Oct 2012
  Cases of torture in police stations continue in Egypt despite an uprising that ostensibly began against police...
Police strike front of Interior Ministry
Interior Ministry reaches out to rights groups
Al-Masry Al-Youm 26 Sep 2012
After the outbreak of the January 2011 revolution, the Interior Ministry began a new era based on respect for...
A group of Pakistani women, on their way to Sukkur Relief Camp, carrying buckets and pans as they wait for aid food, fleeing unprecedented floods in Southern Pakistan, August 27, 2010. So far, floods have resulted in 1600 persons dead and displacement of 8 million persons. According to UN, Pakistan's unprecedented floods are set to spark economic and social unrests across Southern Pakistan, let alone spread of diseases and epidemics. Rescue forces are in a process of evacuating wide areas in Southern Pakistan as part of efforts to secure the displaced and homeless.   .
UN panel spotlights disappearances in Pakistani province
Reuters 17 Sep 2012
For years, human rights groups had hoped that Western governments might lead an international outcry over a little-...
Police strike front of Interior Ministry
Quality of police forces will improve soon, promises interior minister
Al-Masry Al-Youm 14 Sep 2012
  Egyptian citizens can expect a major change in the quality of Interior Ministry personnel soon, Interior...
Tunisian security forces personnel react during clashes with demonstrators in Regueb, near Sidi Bouzid, January 10, 2011. 
Tunisian activists allege detainee was tortured to death
AFP 10 Sep 2012
Radhia Nasraoui, head of the Tunisian Association Against Torture, denounced on Monday the death of a man who died in a...
Copts protesting over church torching, Radio and Television Building, downtown, 7 March, 2011. Thousands of Copts protests against torching a church located in Helwan governorate. Protesters called for restoring the church and impose punishment on those who ruined it.
Religious freedom in Egypt 'quite tenuous,' says Clinton
Reuters 31 Jul 2012
WASHINGTON — Religious freedom in Egypt appears to be "quite tenuous" and its government has...
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Human Rights Watch: Morsy must halt military trials of civilians
Egypt Independent 15 Jul 2012
Human Rights Watch urged President Mohamed Morsy to immediately end military trials of civilians in a report Sunday....
Boutros Ghali,President of national Council for Human Rights
Boutros Ghali sends Morsy human rights report
MENA 01 Jul 2012
Boutros Boutros Ghali, the chairman of the National Council for Human Rights, has sent President Mohamed Morsy the...
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Rights advocates: Military arrest powers worrying
Nadine Marroushi 14 Jun 2012
The military has been given broad powers to arrest civilians — powers that go beyond its mandate, lawyers from...
Demonstration against African migrants, Tel Aviv, Israel
Human Rights Watch slams Israel law to detain migrants without charge
AFP 10 Jun 2012
Human Rights Watch on Sunday urged Israel to repeal or amend a law that allows migrants to be detained without charge...