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Release of Mahienour El-Massry and Youssef Shaaban delayed
The two activists have finished their prison term, and their families condemn their continued detention

Mahienour El-Massry, Youssef Shaaban to be released after completing prison term
Both were imprisoned in a case dating back to 2013

El-Massry, 6 other detainees continue open-ended hunger strike
The detainees started a hunger strike in solidarity with a detainee who was prohibited from seeing her children

Military regime will continue to hate any form of dissent: Mahienour El-Massry
Award winning rights lawyer Al-Massry writes from prison against âoppressive regimesâ

Brief stories of those behind bars for calling for justice
By Tarek âTitoâ Hussein Ramy El-Sayed  Ramy El-Sayed is 28-years-old, a graduate from the Faculty of Languages, a translator and a member of 6 April youth movement. On 1 September, 2014, El-Sayed and a number of members of the 6 April movement went to extend condolences to the family of their martyred friend Ahmed El-Masry …

Prisoners suffer inhumane treatment in prison: El-Massry
Women sleep on top of each other one room, water is provided for four hours a day only

The mysterious case of falsely imprisoned Ahmed Abdel Rahman
In a different country, it would be a policeman fending off against the assault on women by a hound of rabid civilians dragging them violently in the street in plain view, but this is Egypt. It was a passer-by, an ordinary young citizen from Aswan, who saw women being dragged and beaten by men in …

Activists Sanaa Seif and Yara Sallam return home after 15 months in prison
Political activists rejoice release of the young activists imprisoned under the Protest Law, call for the release of other detainees

Court rejects demands to release Mahienour El-Massry
Journalist Youssef Shaabanâs wife pleads deteriorating health situation

Lawyer highlights situation of other detainees to survive his own imprisonment
Abdel Aziz Youssef facing protest charges, arrested from home last week

Activist El-Massry imprisoned over Muslim Brotherhood-era case
The lawyer was handed one year and three months in prison

Whose lives matter in current day Egypt?
By Semanur Karaman On 9 February, in response to the deadly police violence that left 40 football fans killed and dozens murdered in Cairo, Shadi Zalat compared the price of a ticket to the price of life. Unfortunately, in present-day Egypt, the rhetoric behind the comparison is a saddening one as lives of ordinary civilians …

Court sentences Mahienour El-Massry and others to 2 years
Case started in 2013 with clashes between activists and Muslim Brotherhood supporters

Shaimaa Al-Sabbagh died near Tahrir of birdshot to the back: Forensic Authority
Socialist Popular Alliance, activists blame police for ‘excessive’ use of force

Update: Mahienour El-Massry released after hours of arrest
The human rights lawyer was arrested in the area surrounding Stanley Bridge in Alexandria

Alexandria detaineesâ appeal verdict postponed
Detainees are accused of violating Protest Law by participating in demonstration organised in solidarity with torture victim Khaled Said

Released activist Mahienour ElâMassry begins hunger strike
El-Massry joins scores of hunger striking activists

Hunger strikes on the rise in support of detained activists
Egyptian-American detaineeâs health deteriorating after 231 days on hunger strike

Number of hunger-strikers grow
Tanta prisoner Diaa al-Mahdi joins activists in refraining from food

El-Raml Police Station trial postponed
ANHRI calls for release of Mahienour El-Massry and all Protest Law detainees

50 Muslim Brotherhood supporters sentenced to 5 years imprisonment
Defendants charged with violating Protest Law, lawyer claims lack of evidence

Prisoner 41,138
By Amr Khalifa The sun beat down with an untethered ferocity on the cuts on her shoulders, and the fact that the shirt was torn was not helping. Her mobile phone barely had enough charge to call her family to pick her up from the empty desert road where she had been dumped. It had only …

First hearing of appeal starts in El-Massry trial
The first hearing of an appeal filed by the activist Mahienour El-Massry on the 2 years imprisonment sentence starts in Alexandria

Nazra condemns targeting, detention of womenâs rights activists
Group says arrests due to womenâs legitimate activities in the defense of human rights.
Activistsâ trial in Alexandria postponed until 21 June
Trial of 10 activists for burning Freedom and Justice Party headquarters postponed until 21 June

Al-Dostour Party supports lawsuit against Protest Law
Proceedings for the lawsuit against controversial law to take place on Tuesday

Mahienour El-Massry refuses âany kind of amnestyâ from the government
Labour activist and Protest Law detainee demands the abolishment of the law in letter from prison

‘Down with the classist society’: Mahienour El-Massry
Activist calls on revolutionaries from prison to provide alternatives for oppressed

AFTE condemns arrest of activist supporters
Four activists detained for violating protest law
Activist arrested after being sentenced in absentia
Seven out of nine activists are now in custody