Egypt rights body urges authorities to transfer activist to better facility, as his family calls for his release.

Egypt rights body urges authorities to transfer activist to better facility, as his family calls for his release.
Thousands of political prisoners, however, are estimated to remain in Egyptian jails.
Egypt often mediates between Hamas and Israel, but its role in Gaza extends to control of the Rafah border crossing.
State-backed human rights body urges prosecutors to probe whether Ayman Hadhoud was ‘forcibly disappeared’.
Human Rights Watch urged the European Union to ‘seriously reconsider its move’ amid Egypt’s human rights record.
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, one of Egypt’s last independent rights groups, has shut down.
Ramy Shaath was forced to give his Egyptian nationality as a pre-condition for his release.
Egypt sentences Abdel Fattah, a leading figure in the 2011 revolution, to jail with two others for speaking ‘fake news’.
Israeli FM Yair Lapid meets Egypt’s president and foreign minister for talks that reflect budding bilateral ties.
Report says French intelligence implicated in at least 19 Egyptian air attacks against civilians between 2016 and 2018.
Trial in absentia of four Egyptian officers halted as judge rules the defendants may not have been informed of charges.
Egyptian president holds talks with Libya’s interim prime minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, days after Haftar meeting.
The researcher and human rights activist faces up to five years in jail for ‘spreading false news’.
US to withhold $130m, less than half of $300m targeted by Congress and fraction of $1.3bn in overall security aid.