A week after the 22 July terrorist attack in the resort of Sharm al-Sheikh, President Mubarak announced in a public speech that, if re-elected, he might lift the 24-year-old state of emergency and replace the emergency laws with new anti-terror legislation. The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR), ICJ affiliate in the country, called on […]
The ICJ unequivocally condemns the bombings that rocked the city of Sharm al-Sheikh on Friday night, which left at least 64 people dead and hundreds of wounded, according to the latest official estimates. (more…)
Following the terrorist attacks in Cairo on 30 April 2005, the Egyptian authorities reportedly arrested and detained around 200 people from the villages of origin of the alleged perpetrators. The alleged instigator of the attacks reportedly died in custody, raising new concerns regarding torture and ill-treatment in Egypt, said by the UN Committee against Torture […]
An official investigation conducted by the Swedish Parliamentary Ombudsman concluded that the Swedish Police, when witnessing the transfer to Egypt of two Egyptians by US agents, tolerated inhuman and degrading treatment of these detainees. The two individuals were later tortured in Egypt despite diplomatic assurances by the Egyptian Government. The case is also pending before […]
The Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights, ICJ affiliate in Egypt, undertook a fact-finding mission to Arish and documented the arrest of 3,000 people since the Taba bombings that took place last October. The report also documents serious allegations of torture carried out by the security forces.
446. A 19-year-old university student was reportedly arrested by a police officer from the Department for Eradicating Crimes Against Public Morality at the Interior Ministry, in Cairo, on 19 May 2002, and taken to the Vice Squad headquarters in the Tahrir Administrative Compound where he was allegedly beaten, severely shaken and forced to sign a […]
