Human Rights
Rights groups: Hundreds of refugees held hostage in Sinai ‘torture camps’
Egypt
December 6, 2011
Rights groups: Hundreds of refugees held hostage in Sinai ‘torture camps’
Horrific accounts of torture, rape and organ theft are continuing to emerge from Egypt’s Sinai desert, seven rights organizations said…
UN human rights chief calls for action to protect Syrians
World
December 2, 2011
UN human rights chief calls for action to protect Syrians
GENEVA — United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called on Friday for the international community to take…
European leaders express deep concern over Tahrir clashes
Egypt
November 21, 2011
European leaders express deep concern over Tahrir clashes
Germany and Italy have expressed deep concern over the violent clashes between protesters and security forces in Egypt over the…
European Parliament to vote on resolution condemning Egypt rights violations
Egypt
November 17, 2011
European Parliament to vote on resolution condemning Egypt rights violations
The European Parliament plans to vote Thursday on a draft resolution calling on Egyptian authorities to release all political detainees…
HRW calls for release of Egyptian blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah
Egypt
November 15, 2011
HRW calls for release of Egyptian blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah
Human Rights Watch has called on Egypt to release a prominent blogger detained by military prosecutors. In a statement Tuesday,…
Source: Al-Azhar and Church reach agreement on house of worship law
Egypt
November 8, 2011
Source: Al-Azhar and Church reach agreement on house of worship law
The Coptic Orthodox Church and Al-Azhar have come to an agreement on a unified law for building houses of worship,…
UN human rights office: Death toll in Syria rises to at least 3500
World
November 8, 2011
UN human rights office: Death toll in Syria rises to at least 3500
GENEVA — Syria’s nearly eight-month-old uprising has cost at least 3500 civilian lives, the United Nations reported Tuesday, in a…
Captured in international waters en route to Gaza: An eyewitness account
Egypt
November 5, 2011
Captured in international waters en route to Gaza: An eyewitness account
Lina Attalah, Al-Masry Al-Youm English's managing editor, recently took part in the "Freedom Waves" flotilla carrying aid to Gaza. She…
My son told me he was tortured, says mother of deceased prisoner
Egypt
November 1, 2011
My son told me he was tortured, says mother of deceased prisoner
The mother of Essam Atta, an inmate of Tora Prison who recently died in a hospital, told prosecutors that her…
Doctors say dead prisoner was poisoned, but not tortured
Egypt
October 30, 2011
Doctors say dead prisoner was poisoned, but not tortured
Doctors at the hospital in which the Tora Prison inmate, Essam Atta, 23, died, have concurred that he was poisoned,…