Egypt has released Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein after more than four years in detention on accusations of publishing false news, a security source said Friday.
Egypt arrests 5 relatives of actor Hisham Abdullah December 29, 2020 at 8:57 am | Published in: Africa, Egypt, International Organisations, News, UN
Egyptian oppositionist and actor Hisham Abdullah, 29 December 2020 December 29, 2020 at 8:57 am
Five relatives of Egyptian oppositionist and actor Hisham Abdullah have been arrested, a human rights group has revealed.
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) said, in a statement published on Facebook, that the Supreme State Security Prosecution detained five members of Hisham Abdullah s family pending a state security case.
According to the organisation, the actor s nephew Ahmed Abdel Dayem Abdullah, and four of his cousins: Abdullah Fekri Fayed, Abdullah Muhammad Abdullah, Ali Abdo Ali, Muhammad Abdelhamid Mari i, on charges of joining and financing a terrorist group.
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Egyptian Central Security Forces in Cairo, 2012. (Jonathan Rashad, https://flic.kr/p/bGdYSH; CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
On Nov. 3, a group of foreign ambassadors and diplomats representing 12 countries and the European Commission gathered at the offices of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR). The group was present to discuss the state of human rights and civil society in Egypt following a request made by one of the countries. As a preeminent independent civil society organization that has been legally operating in the country since 2002, EIPR is widely respected and sought after for its knowledge production, advocacy and litigation on key issues from health to the economy to criminal justice. The meeting which took place within the mandate of the foreign diplomatic corps’ engagement with Egyptian stakeholders was not the first of its type and