A top adviser to President-elect Joe Biden, who has pledged a renewed U.S. emphasis on human rights, on Friday voiced concern about a prominent Egyptian rights group that said security agents had ...

Egypt and Vietnam are on track to secure seats on the United Nations Human Rights Council despite being woefully unfit for ...

"I'm learning how to get back into life," says freed British-Egyptian pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, as he ...

CNN — Egypt has arrested three employees of a leading domestic human rights group, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR). The crackdown came after EIPR staff met with Western ambassadors ...

India under scrutiny, too, for restricting access to UN experts and 'climate of impunity' over attacks on religious ...

Egyptian authorities detained prominent independent journalist and researcher Ismail Iskandarani over Facebook posts critical ...

The U.N. human rights office, the United States and several European countries on Friday criticised the arrest of three members of a prominent Egyptian rights group after a meeting with diplomats in ...

The first edition of the Arab Moot Court Competition for Human Rights has concluded at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI).The competition was organised by the ...

The Egyptian-British human rights activist and writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah has been pardoned after almost six years in jail in ...

Alaa Abd El-Fattah is considered to be among the most high-profile political prisoners held in Egypt's prisons.

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Prominent Egyptian-British human rights defender Alaa Abdel Fattah was released from prison after years behind bars and reunited with his family in an emotional celebration following a long-awaited pa ...