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2010-1-24
Egyptian prisons are notorious for their bad conditions of detention, the widespread practice of torture and the arbitrary nature of the detention of many of their inmates...
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2010-1-17
Dr Islam Sobhy Al Mazeny, an Egyptian doctor and poet, was arrested on 7 April 2007 by the Egyptian State Security Intelligence (SSI) as he was organizing his departure to work in a Saudi Arabian clinic...
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2010-1-15
On 13 December 2009, the Egyptian State Security Intelligence (SSI) raided the houses and arrested Mohamed Omar Mohamed Omar,..
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2009-12-19
Ahmed Saad Douma, a 20-year-old blogger and student at Tanta University, was arrested by State Security Intelligence (SSI -Amn Al-Dowla) at the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt on 4 February 2009...
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2009-12-17
The Egyptian authorities continue to forcibly arrest anyone who challenges the regime...
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2009-12-16
Forces from General Intelligence Directorate arrested Ma'an Aqil from his office at Al-Thawra newspaper in Damascus on 22 November 2009...
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2009-12-12
Ahmed Rajab Abdelradi, a 23 year old chemist from Aswan, was arrested on 12 November 2009, and was later severely tortured while in the custody of the Investigative Branch of the Aswan Police Department...
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2009-12-9
The State of Emergency law is often used by the Egyptian security services as a pretext for arbitrary arrests of dissident groups or those believed to be members of such groups...
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Egypt: Release of Dr. Gamal Abdel Salam, Muslim Brotherhood member, detained 5 months without charge
2009-11-19
Dr. Gamal Abdel Salam was released following his detention for 5 months without charges. This comes in the context of continued waves of arrests in Egypt of members and leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood...
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2009-11-19
On Wednesday 4 November 2009, two university students were summoned by the police on fabricated charges...
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2009-11-19
The Egyptian Military Court of Appeals today rejected the appeal lodged by Mr. Khairat Al Shatter and 17 other leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood against sentences ranging from 3 to 10 years issued against them by Egypt's Supreme Military Court on 15 April 2008...
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2009-11-5
Egyptian State Security Investigation (SSI) forces arrested eight students on 28 October 2009 on accusations of membership to the Muslim Brotherhood - they were held for three days incommunicado at Zagaziq Police Station and then transferred on 30 October 2009 to Damanhour prison. During the students three days incommunicado detention at Zagaziq Police, they were exposed to ill-treatment and subjected to insults and beatings at the hands of the SSI...
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2009-11-3
In the past 3 months, the Egyptian government has carried out successive mass arrests of leading members of the countries largest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, including Dr Ashraff Abdel Ghaffar and Dr Ahmed Heshmat. Alkarama has been following these cases and, on 27 October 2009, submitted 112 cases of arbitrary arrest and detention of the Muslim Brotherhoods leaders and followers to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD)...
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2009-11-2
On 13 October 2009, Haitham al-Maleh, was summoned by Syrian Political Security in Damascus for an inquiry and has since vanished. He left his home on the morning of 14 October 2009 and by noon hour his phone was off - it became clear that he was disappeared. Mr. al-Maleh's disappearance is believed to be linked to a telephone interview he gave on 12 October 2009 to London-based Syrian opposition television station Barada TV during which he openly criticized Syrian authorities for their continued repression of freedom of expression. Alkarama submitted his case to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on 20 October 2009..
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2009-10-27
Alkarama has just received reports from inside ِal-Marg prison in Cairo, that political detainee Ayman Ibrahim al-Dasuqi nearly died in custody. Sources inform that his illness turned critical at 14h00 on 23 October 2009 when his blood pressure sky-rocketed due to complications associated with diabetes...
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2009-10-6
Alkarama has received news from Egypt regarding the arrests of two separate groups in Al-Buheira and Munufeya Governorate...
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2009-10-6
Alkarama has just received news of two further extrajudicial killings by Egyptian security forces. This follows other reports of the excessive use of force by the, such as in the cases of Magdi Marei and Faras Barakat...
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2009-9-30
Today, September 28, 2009, 10 years have passed since the day Malik Medjnoune was abducted near his home in Tizi-Ouzou by the Algerian secret services of the Department of Intelligence and Security (DRS). After being held incommunicado for more than eight months and severely tortured, he was imprisoned without ever being tried...
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2009-9-30
In the past, Mr. Al-Magaleh had repeatedly been arrested and detained incommunicado without legal process by Political security forces (Al-Amn Assiyassi), before being released several months later without having had a trial...
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2009-9-30
The initial message he relayed through the Iraqi family of another prisoner was that he was fine and that he had been arrested by U.S. forces and was being held at Camp Buka...
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