News & Reports

By Ruth Michaelson in Cairo and Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo – The Guardian – An Egyptian researcher who is studying in Italy has been arrested on arrival in Cairo on charges of “harming [...]

By The Associated Press –  Egyptian police arrested an activist and researcher who was a vocal critic of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s government, the interior ministry and a [...]

By Asia News – Iraq must preserve its “unity” in the “diversity of its components” and their “multiplicity”, although in recent years “most [...]

By: EIPR – EIPR Gender & Rights Researcher Patrick George Zaki, arrested on arrival at Cairo airport, tortured and sent to Public Prosecution after 24 hours of incommunicado detention. [...]

By: Congressman Hill Office – Date: February 6, 2020 – Yesterday, Congressman French Hill (AR-02), a member of the Religious Minorities in the Middle East Caucus, hosted Rehman [...]

By Joe Adams – National Pivot The European parliament, legislative branch of the European Union, has accused the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari of overseeing the persecution [...]

By Ruth Michaelson – The Guardian Mohammed Abdellatif did not see himself as a political activist. As a dentist in Cairo, his concerns were focused on healthcare and issues such as a lack [...]

By Mada Masr – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed outrage over the death of Egyptian American dual national Mustafa Kassem while imprisoned in Egypt, calling the death “pointless [...]

By Watani – The Coptic school teacher Mervat Seifein from Beni Mazar, Minya, has for the second time during the last two weeks been rejected by Minya students for the explicit reason that [...]

By Jared Malsin – Wall Street Journal – CAIRO—More than 300 prisoners are staging a hunger strike in a Cairo prison to protest punishment beatings and other harsh treatment in [...]