Egypt's security forces harass activists into silence, Amnesty says - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff

Sep 16, 2021

Egypt dissidents — Mahmoud Hussein (center), an Egyptian national journalist for Al Jazeera Arabic, is embraced by a man at his family home south of Cairo on Feb. 6, 2021 upon his release from detention after four years without trial. Amnesty International released a report Thursday accusing Egypt's National Security Agency of harassing and intimidating human rights defenders. — AFP via Getty Images

Egypt carried out ‘execution spree’ in past two months, Amnesty International says

Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff

The sister (R) of Egyptian rights activist Sanaa Seif stands outside a court in Cairo on December 28, 2014, along with friends and relatives of the twenty-two other pro-democracy activists accused of holding an illegal protest last June, after an appeals court reduced the jail sentences from three years to two. The defendants were accused of holding an illegal protest on June 21 calling for the release of detainees and the annulment of a law that bans all but police-sanctioned demonstrations. They were also

Egyptian activist Sanaa Seif ‘abducted’ in Cairo, family says

Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff

Egyptian tanks take part in the Arab Shield joint military exercises at Mohamed Naguib military base in El-Hamam near the Mediterranean coast, about 240 kilometres northwest of the capital Cairo on Nov. 15, 2018.

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Democrats push Biden to restrict Egypt’s military aid over rights abuses

Elizabeth Hagedorn

Elizabeth Hagedorn

In Washington, DC, reporting on diplomacy, regional politics, human rights

A picture taken on July 26, 2018 shows Egyptian policemen driving on a road leading to the North Sinai provincial capital of El-Arish.

Biden move on Egypt aid slammed by human rights groups

Elizabeth Hagedorn

Elizabeth Hagedorn

In Washington, DC, reporting on diplomacy, regional politics, human rights