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By: The Hill – A pair of bipartisan Senators are pushing the Egyptian government to take action on the case of an imprisoned Egyptian human rights and religious freedom activist on charges [...]

By Al-Monitor In the past few days, several arrest warrants have been issued for Egyptian Christians accused of insulting Islam. A young Muslim man was also detained for mocking the hosts of [...]

By Mada Masr The arrests of three staff members of one of Egypt’s leading human rights groups, including its executive director, has sparked condemnation from rights organizations, international [...]

By CIHRS – The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the arrest of Gasser Abdel Razek, Executive Director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and one of the pioneers of [...]

By Mada Masr – BREAKING – Security forces arrested Gasser Abdel Razek, the executive director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, from his home in Maadi on Thursday, [...]

By Mada Masr- In an escalating crackdown on one of Egypt’s leading human rights groups, National Security Agency officers arrested Karim Ennarah, the director of the criminal justice unit of the [...]

By The New York Times – More than 100 painted wooden coffins, many with bodies, were found in the necropolis of Saqqara, officials said. After several recent finds at the site, it’s the [...]

By MadaMasr- The arrest of the administrative manager of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), a flagship human rights organization, on Sunday night was a direct response by [...]

By Watani – The 61-year-old Coptic man Nabil Habashy Salem was kidnapped last Monday near his home in Bir al-Abd, South Sinai. According to his son, Peter, Salem has been a trader in Bir [...]

By Aleteia – Cabo Delgado, the northernmost province of Mozambique, has been going through great turmoil ever since October 2017. In a series of more than 600 brutal attacks in nine [...]