Category: Criminal justice

““We Do Unreasonable Things Here” Torture and National Security in al-Sisi’s Egypt”

Since July 2013, when Egypt’s military overthrew the country’s first freely elected president, torture has returned as the calling card of the...

‘There was no door on which I did not knock’: Coptic Christians caught in attacks and state’s failures

On 5 July 2013, four Coptic Christian men were killed by local residents in Luxor. Scores of Christian homes were also torched...

A Homeland Lives Within Us, But We Cannot Live in It: Egyptian Organizing and Activism from Exile

Last June marked the first anniversary of the death of queer activist Sarah Hegazi, in exile in Canada. The days following her...

“No One Cared He Was A Child” Egyptian Security Forces’ Abuse of Children in Detention

Since the Egyptian army forcibly removed Egypt’s first elected president, Mohamed Morsy, in 2013, the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has...

Detention Conditions in Egypt

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, a 6,500-megawatt hydroelectric power plant being constructed in Ethiopia, has been a major point of contention between...

Executions and the Death Penalty

Since July 2013, Egyptian courts have increasingly carried out executions. According to reporting by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), authorities...

If You Are Afraid for Your Lives, Leave Sinai! Egyptian Security Forces and ISIS-Affiliate Abuses in North Sinai

Since 2011, the Egyptian military and police have battled ISIS-affiliated militants in North Sinai governorate. Sparsely populated, and with roughly half-a-million residents,...

Terrorist Entities Law

The Law Organizing the Lists of Terrorists and Terrorist Entities (commonly known as the Terrorist Entities Law), Law No. 8 of 2015,...

Gross human rights violations under President Al-Sisi: Amnesty International submission for the UN Universal Periodic Review, 34th session of the UPR working group, November 2019

This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Egypt in November 2019. In it, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation...

The Terrorist Funds Law

The Law Organizing the Seizure, Inventory, Management, and Use of Terrorist Organizations’ and Terrorists’ Funds (the Terrorist Funds Law) went into effect...
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