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Minister of Interior Majdi `Abd al-Ghaffār met a group of journalists in his office on Monday to discuss police abuse and plans to confront terrorism.
Security personnel arrested Isma`ĭl Iskandarānī, a journalist and human rights activist, at Hurghāda airport late Sunday, security sources told Al-Masrī Al-Yawm.
“Exceptional circumstances can never be pretexts for torture,” Egypt’s former vice president Muhammad Al-Barade`ī tweeted after reports emerged about three people dying in Egypt as a result of police brutality over the past week.
The Egyptian Social Democratic Party (ESDP) slammed in a statement Wednesday what it described as a security crackdown against independent cultural venues and activists in Egypt which could threaten stability in Egypt.
Over the past two days, the Egyptian authorities have shut down an internationally respected art gallery and raided an independent publishing house in what free-speech advocates said Tuesday were the latest moves in an expanding crackdown on dissent that now includes cultural spaces popular with...
On December 28, the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) in cooperation with the Lawyer Syndicate will hold a training for lawyers in the upper Egyptian cities on how to assist prisoners and detainees who are subject to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
“In international law,” tweeted Muhammad al-Barādē`i on December 22, “the UN Security Council can turn to the International Criminal Court (ICC) the crimes of enforced disappearance even if the country [where the crime is committed] is not a party in that court.”
The Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) has said that it registered 340 cases of enforced disappearance in Egypt in the space of just two months, with a daily average of three cases, Almesryoon.com reported.
The National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) is preparing a list with the names of forced disappearance victims that so far include 101 victims reportedly arrested by security forces.
The presidency stressed on the commitment of the Egyptian State to uphold the values of justice, accountability, and human rights. 

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