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Egypt: Newspaper editor’s prosecution part of a “pattern of harassment” of Egyptian media - 27 March 2008

Ibrahim Eissa was charged under Articles 171 and 188 of the Penal Code for publishing in 2007 information considered by the authorities to be damaging to the public in

Another migrant shot dead at Egypt/Israel border - 28 February 2008

Egyptian security forces shot dead another woman trying to cross into Israel on Saturday.

Migrant shot dead trying to cross Egypt/Israel border - 21 February 2008

Egyptian security forces shot dead a Sudanese man trying to cross into Israel on Tuesday –

Egypt blocks Gazans' access to the outside world - 31 January 2008

More than 1,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip have become stuck in the northern Sinai region of Egypt as the Egyptian authorities try to force them back into Gaza

Egypt: Sweeping measures against torture needed - 5 November 2007

The three-year prison sentences handed down against two police officers by an Egyptian court today must be used by the authorities to open the way towards punishing

'Off the record' secret CIA detention - 7 June 2007

At least 39 individuals who remain missing are believed to have been subjected to enforced disappearance by the US authorities.

Egypt: Planned anti-terror law could intensify abuses - 11 April 2007

The Egyptian authorities are committing systematic abuses of human rights in the name of national security -- and a planned new anti-terror law could make the situatio

Egyptian blogger faces 10-year prison sentence - 20 February 2007

Egyptian blogger Karim Amer is standing trial for his writings criticizing Egypt's al-Azhar religious authorities, Islam and President Husni Mubarak. His trial res

Executions imminent after unfair trials in Egypt - 13 July 2007

Three men are facing imminent execution in Egypt. Muhammed Gayiz Sabbah, Usama 'Abed al-Ghani al-Nakhlawi and Younis Muhammed Abu Gareer were convicted of terroris