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Nadeem Center: 272 deaths behind bars during Sisi’s first year of rule
Egypt

Nadeem Center: 272 deaths behind bars during Sisi’s first year of rule

The Nadeem Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence released a report saying that security violations during the past 12 months…
Egyptian prisons on the rise
Egypt

Egyptian prisons on the rise

“The government should consider building new prisons, as they are incredibly crowded,” said a short note released by the Egyptian…
Proposed amendments to Prisons Act support right to contact outside world
Egypt

Proposed amendments to Prisons Act support right to contact outside world

Transitional Justice Minister Ibrahim al-Heneidi said the Legislative Reform Committee has discussed amendments to the Prisons Act that support the…
Egyptian prisons overcrowded, says rights group to president
Egypt

Egyptian prisons overcrowded, says rights group to president

A Cairo-based human rights organization has urged the presidency to intervene immediately to resolve the problem of high density in…
Morsy prison break trial to resume Sunday
Egypt

Morsy prison break trial to resume Sunday

Cairo Criminal Court will resume on Sunday the trial of toppled President Mohamed Morsy and 130 others over allegedly storming…
Interior Ministry: No torture, rape cases in Egyptian prisons
Egypt

Interior Ministry: No torture, rape cases in Egyptian prisons

Major General Abu Bakr Abdel Kareem, deputy interior minister for human rights, said on Sunday that there are no human…
Interior Ministry: We will publish ‘true’ images of prisons
Egypt

Interior Ministry: We will publish ‘true’ images of prisons

Assistant Interior Minister for Human Rights Abdel Karim Abu Bakr expressed doubts about the credibility of the pictures published by…
FJP official: Brotherhood prisoners exceed 10,000 under inhumane conditions
Egypt

FJP official: Brotherhood prisoners exceed 10,000 under inhumane conditions

Faisal al-Sayyed, member of the Freedom and Justice Party’s legal committee, said prisoners affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood have grown…
North Korean inmates starved and tortured, abuse widespread: U.N.
World

North Korean inmates starved and tortured, abuse widespread: U.N.

Inmates in North Korea's prison camps have suffered starvation, torture and other "unspeakable atrocities," U.N. human rights investigators said on…
Ministry: 21,000 prisoners who escaped during revolution arrested
Egypt

Ministry: 21,000 prisoners who escaped during revolution arrested

The Interior Ministry said Sunday it has arrested 21,000 people who escaped from prisons during the 25 January revolution two…
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