Human Rights

USAID funding channeled to Egypt’s registered NGOs
Egypt

USAID funding channeled to Egypt’s registered NGOs

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is preparing to disburse new grants and aid package to Egyptian civil…
Rights conference decries waning US, EU support
Egypt

Rights conference decries waning US, EU support

At a two-day conference held this week in Cairo entitled "Prospects for Political Reform in the Arab World," organized by…
Trial of police charged in Khaled Saeed case begins
Egypt

Trial of police charged in Khaled Saeed case begins

The two secret policemen charged in the case of a 28-year-old man who eyewitnesses say was beaten to death in…
US Senate calls on Egypt to abolish emergency law
Egypt

US Senate calls on Egypt to abolish emergency law

The US Senate has referred to its Foreign Relations Committee a draft resolution calling on Egypt to abolish its 29-year-old…
Egypt’s human rights abuses: systematic not arbitrary
Opinion

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

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

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

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

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

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…
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