Mona Seif, an Egyptian rights activist, issued a response on Thursday to critics who maintain that Ms. Seif’s anti-Israel position should disqualify her from consideration for the Martin Ennals Award ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CAIRO (AP) — A prominent Egyptian human rights activist was released Thursday after serving her sentence on charges of spreading ...

Pro-democracy Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah is pardoned and released after nearly 12 years in prison. “An ...

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH, requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in ...