Brief

Background This paper reviews the human rights situation in Egyptian detention facilities one year after the Egyptian government launched the National Human Rights Strategy on September 11, 2021. The strategy’s announcement was accompanied by an extensive public relations campaign targeting…

According to our documentation, Tora Maximum Security II Prison is overcrowded, poorly ventilated, and short of potable water and hygiene tools. prisoners struggle to find decent food and suffer from a systematic shortage of health care facilities and a widespread…

Egyptian Front has relied on news, reports documented by rights organization as well as interviews with former prisoners to hereby introduce Port Said Women’s prison and present its conditions from 2013 and until now. Egyptian Front has generally concluded that…

North Sinai has been in a continuous state of emergency since October 2014 under the pretext of the war on terror, which makes it vulnerable for ongoing violations of the basic rights for individuals. On February 9, 2018, following the…

{:en}Relevant recommendations accepted by Egypt in 2014 In the 2nd cycle of Egypt’s UPR, Egypt received the following recommendations relating to the death penalty: Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which provides…