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June 8, 2016 News Release

Egypt: Stop Retaliation for Anti-Torture Proposal

2 Judges, Human Rights Lawyer Face Prosecution

Negad al-Borai with Raouf and Abd el-Gabbar

May 25, 2016 News Release

Egypt: Scores of Protesters Jailed Unjustly

47 Hunger Strikers May Be Freed

May 16, 2016 News Release

Jordan: Ease Travel for Gaza Palestinians

Restrictions Block Educational, Economic Opportunity

A sign is seen at the Erez border crossing between Israel and northern Gaza Strip. Israel limits travel via the Erez Crossing to “exceptional humanitarian cases.”

May 3, 2016 News Release

Egypt: Detained for Protesting Jail Conditions

Free Doctor, 2 Others, Arrested in Cairo Police Sweep

Taher Mokhtar at a protest in Alexandira in 2013

April 30, 2016 News Release

Egypt: Unshackle Workers’ Right to Organize

Draft Law Should Guarantee Unions’ Independence

Independent Unions in a protest on Workers’ Day in Cairo 2011.

April 27, 2016 News Release

Egypt: Fearing Protests, Police Arrest Hundreds

Journalists, Lawyers Among Those Apprehended

Journalists and activists protest against the restriction of press freedom and to demand the release of detained journalists, in front of the Press Syndicate in Cairo, Egypt on April 26, 2016.

April 21, 2016 Report

Egypt: Children Reported Tortured, ‘Disappeared’

Alexandria Arrests Emblematic of Security Abuses

April 13, 2016 News Release

Egypt: 7,400 Civilians Tried In Military Courts

Torture, Disappearances Used to Elicit Confessions

March 23, 2016 News Release

Egypt: Rights Defenders at Risk of Prosecution

Court Summons Activists, Moves to Seize Funds

March 21, 2016 Statement

UN Human Rights Council: The Vienna Declaration and Program of Action

General Debate under Item 8

March 13, 2016 News Release

Egypt: Reverse Blasphemy Sentences Against Christian Children

5-Year Terms for Video Mocking ISIS

"How can you try someone for mocking ISIS?"

February 23, 2016 News Release

Egypt: Life Sentence for 3-Year-Old

Error Demonstrates Arbitrary Nature of Crackdown

February 20, 2016 News Release

UAE: Egyptian Detainee Alleges ‘Brutal’ Torture

Would Have “Confessed to Coming From Mars” to Stop Abuse

Mosaab Abd el Aziz and his sisters Yara and Arwa at a graduation exhibition in 2014.

February 17, 2016 News Release

Egypt: Order to Shut Clinic for Torture Victims

Nadeem Center Provides Crucial Support

Protest co-organised by El Nadeem Center on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on June 26, 2013. El Nadeem Center Facebook Page

February 8, 2016 Letter

Letter to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi

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