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CAIRO (AP) — A prominent Egyptian photojournalist was released after five years in prison and returned home Monday to hugs from family and friends, pledging to continue working despite severe restrictions imposed on his movements, including having to spend the nights at a police station nearby. Mahmoud Abu Zaid, popularly known as “Shawkan,” was convicted […]

Responding to the news that Egyptian authorities have today executed nine men convicted after a grossly unfair trial for the 2015 killing of the country’s former Public Prosecutor, Najia Bounaim, Amnesty International’s North Africa Campaigns Director said: “By carrying out the executions of these nine men today Egypt has demonstrated an absolute disregard for the

Amnesty International has condemned the disgraceful execution on Wednesday of nine Egyptian prisoners who rights groups say were unfairly convicted. “By carrying out the executions of these nine men today Egypt has demonstrated an absolute disregard for the right to life,” said Najia Nounaim, Amnesty International’s North Africa Campaigns Director Egypt hanged the nine men in

The severity of the Egyptian authorities’ crackdown on dissidents in recent years has left many activists unwilling to defy the regime of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The waves of political activism that preceded the 2011 revolution and peaked in the wake of that uprising have been fading since the military coup of July 2013. Fewer