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Pro-Esraa El-Taweel activist released pending investigations

Lawyer hopes charges are dropped, saying “there are no violations”

In Video: Activists protest Egypt’s UN vote for Israel

Video by Ahmed Hendawy and Asmaa Gamal Montage by Omar Qurashi

Activists protest Egypt’s UN vote for Israel

The demonstration was hosted by ‘The popular committee to support the Palestinian Intifada’, and was attended by several leftist activists who chanted against Israel and the Egyptian government.

Detention of Esraa El-Taweel extended as medical assessment denounced

Extension of imprisonment based on spurious green-light from doctor, say defence

Sons of former autocrat to walk free after expiry of their sentences in the “Presidential Palaces” case

Mubarak’s sons formerly charged with corruption

‘They deserve freedom’: Bread and Justice Party holds conference on detainees

Speakers roundly dismiss the significance of President Al-Sisi’s Ramadan pardons

Egyptian-Tunisian campaign launched to release detained ‘Arab Spring’ activists

Campaign aims to put internal attention on cases of detained activists in Egypt and Tunisia

48 prisoners released under Al-Sisi’s presidential pardon: Freedom for the Brave

Other trial cases and bureaucratic mistakes are preventing the release of a number of detainees, say human rights groups and lawyers

1,250 forced disappearances since beginning of year: NGO

Islamists and liberal activists targeted by security services, research claims

Egypt’s young activists face crackdown, repression: Amnesty International

“The country has reverted fully to being a police state,” rights group says

Detainee El-Taweel’s sister concerned over ‘inadequate’ healthcare conditions in prison

So far, we do not know why Esraa is detained, no clear charges against her, says defence lawyer

Court acquits TV presenter Ahmed Moussa from slander charges

Moussa appealed previously issued prison sentence

South Korean activists stand in solidarity with Egyptian detainees

Protests are part of a wider call for international action in solidarity with Egyptian detainees

Activists launch campaign to release ‘Rabaa Operations Room’ journalists

Fourteen journalists and other media workers, including Abdullah Al-Fakharany, were given life sentences in case’s verdict

68 protesters fined EGP 50,000 each in 25 January anniversary trial

Protesters acquitted of Protest Law crimes subject to imprisonment

Court to issue verdict for 68 protesters on 31 March

Defence pleads not guilty to protest and illegal public assembly charges

Court resumes trial for 68 protesters arrested on 25 January

One defendant among injured of the Revolution in 2011, can’t see, says party member and activist

Egypt’s International Women’s Day usually celebrated in marches demanding rights

2015’s new demands add up to old unachieved ones

Court adjourns trial of 68 defendants in revolution anniversary protests case

Judge said next session will continue to hear defence argument, asks for lawyers to settle disputes

In Pictures: Activist Alaa Abdel Fattah received 5-year sentence in Shura Council trial

The five-year prison sentence of prominent activist Alaa Abdel Fattah raised questions over the state’s stance towards the 25 January Revolution. On Monday, the Cairo Criminal Court sentenced Abdel Fattah to five years in prison, in addition to an EGP 100,000 fine over assaulting the police and illegal protesting. Defendant Ahmed Abdel Rahman received the …