Egypt
Seen in the press
Read our selection of press reports about this country. This is a short description of prison conditions on a national scale. It gives an account of the preceding year’s events.
Egypt: pretrial detention renewals by video
The Egyptian authorities have widely deployed a videoconference system since 2022 to remotely conduct pretrial detention hearings and permanently avoid bringing detainees to court in person, Human Rights Watch said today. The system is inherently abusive as it undermines detainees’ right to be brou…
Egypt: tales of oppression, abuse and human rights violations in women's prison
High walls, mobile prison, overcrowded rooms, and no regard for one’s bodily autonomy: this is what many women and girls deal with in Egypt’s prisons, only for being human rights activists, journalists, or political opponents to the regime. Over the past seven years, Egypt’s prisons, especially the…
Egipto: continúan las muertes de detenidos en la prisión de Badr
El número de muertes de presos políticos en el Complejo Penitenciario de Badr, en El Cairo, se ha elevado a cuatro, apenas unos meses después de la apertura del enorme complejo. Esto se debe a la muerte del detenido Hassan Diab Hassan dentro de su celda en la prisión Badr 3 debido a una negligencia…Égypte : Amnesty dénonce les conditions de détention dans les nouvelles prisons du pays
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Egypt: building Egypt’s expansive and oppressive prison system
A new report from the Arab Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) reveals how Egypt built dozens of jails since the January 2011 revolution to keep thousands of prisoners, including roughly 65,000 prisoners of conscience, behind bars.Egypte : 16 personnes, dont au moins trois femmes, exécutés pour des faits de droit commun
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Egypt: collective punishment at prison
A human rights watchdog Thursday accused Egyptian authorities of making modifications to a notorious Cairo prison that amount to “collective punishment” of inmates following an escape attempt that left four policemen dead. Egyptian security agencies last month had construction workers make changes…Egipto: estremecedor aumento de las ejecuciones revela profunda crisis de derechos humanos
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Egypte : Amnesty dénonce une "frénésie d’exécutions" avec 57 mises à mort depuis octobre
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Egipto: cientos de legisladores y legisladoras de la UE y EE. UU. instan al presidente Abdel Fattah al Sisi a que excarcele a presos y presas de conciencia en Egipto
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Egypt: le personnel de santé harcelé et emprisonné
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Egypt: un agujero negro en tiempos del coronavirus
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Egypt: mauvais traitements, les autorités tentent de convaincre les journalistes (en vain ?)
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Egypt: "credible evidence" that "brutal" prison conditions prompted Morsi’s death, thousands more at risk
A group of independent UN human rights experts said on Friday that there was “credible evidence” that inadequate prison conditions in which former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was held may have led “directly” to his death in June, and thousands of other detainees may be at “severe risk”.