Courtesy ICJ. Org
Key examples of violations inside prisons
- Enforced disappearance for extended periods without being brought before the Public Prosecutor.
- Physical and psychological torture within detention facilities.
- Deliberate medical neglect and denial of treatment to sick prisoners.
- Overcrowding in cells, poor ventilation, and inadequate hygiene.
- Denial of visits and communication with families.
- Malnutrition and lack of clean drinking water.
- Prolonged solitary confinement as an arbitrary punishment.
- Violation of women’s rights through humiliating searches, harassment, and denial of healthcare.
- Detention of children in inhumane conditions and denial of education and care.
- Unfair trials and reliance on confessions extracted under torture.
- Restrictions on lawyers during visits and prevention of their attendance at investigations.
- Threatening and harassing detainees’ families during visits or completely preventing them from visiting.
Courtesy: Anadolu Agency
Firstly, enforced disappearance
The Egyptian regime has consistently practiced this crime against Egyptian citizens whenever it anticipates any movement in the streets, whether this movement calls for support of any local, regional, or international issue. The rates of enforced disappearances, carried out by security agencies that commit this crime outside the bounds of the law, quickly increase Monthly Enforced Disappearances in 2025
The number of disappeared persons from January 1 to October 30, 2025, reached 1,333.
- Enforced disappearances in January: 135
- Enforced disappearances in February: 154
- Enforced disappearances in March: 125
- Enforced disappearances in April: 109
- Enforced disappearances in May: 213
- Enforced disappearances in June: 134
- Enforced disappearances in July: 250
- Enforced disappearances in August: 107
- Enforced disappearances in September: 106
- Enforced disappearances in October
- Enforced disappearances in November
- Enforced Disappearances in December
Total number of enforced disappearances of politicians during 2024: 1,908 people.
Total number of enforced disappearances in 2025: 1,333 people so far
Annual figures for enforced disappearances from 2013 to 2024
- 2013-2014: 560 people
- 2015: 1,720 people
- 2016: 1,300 people
- 2017: 2,171 people
- 2018: 905 people
- 2019: 1,523 people
. 2020: 3,045 people
- 2021: 1,536 people
- 2022: 1,887 people
- 2,456 people in 2023
- 1,908 people in 2024
- 1,333 people in 2025. So far
Thus, the number of forcibly disappeared political figures is 20,344 during the years from 2013 to 2025.
Courtesy: New Arab
Second: Death Sentences
- Approximately 1,600 death sentences were issued, and 105 people were executed.
- In 2024
- The Court of Cassation upheld the death sentences issued against 7 detainees in Case No. 8280 of 2014, Helwan Criminal Court, known in the media as the Helwan Police Station Storming Case.
- The First Terrorism Circuit of the State Security Criminal Court issued its verdict in Case No. 72 of 2021, registered as No. 9 of 2021, New Cairo General Court, known in the media as the “Platform Events,” sentencing 8 detainees to death by hanging
- The Court of Cassation upheld the death sentences against two detainees in Case No. 85 of 2017, Shebin El-Kom Felonies, known in the media as the “Specialized Committees in Menoufia” case.
- The Terrorism Circuit of the State Security Court issued death sentences against nine citizens in Case No. 328 of 2022, Supreme State Security Felonies, known in the media as the “Agouza Cell” case.
- The Third Circuit of the Criminal Court, convened at the Badr Courts Complex, issued death sentences against two defendants in Case No. 510 of 2022, Supreme State Security, registered as No. 31369 of 2023, El-Marg Felonies, known in the media as the “First Grace Church Bombing Cell in El-Marg” case
- The First Terrorism Circuit of the Supreme State Security Court issued verdicts against one of the defendants in Case No. 6482 of 2022, El Shorouk Felonies, known in the media as the “Ismailia Cell”
Third: Recycling
From January 2018 to the end of December 2021, 2,744 recycled cases were documented.
1,456 cases were recorded: 56 before 2018, 82 in 2018, 306 in 2019, 843 in 2020, and one in 2021.
During this period, 1,732 detained men were recycled, along with 32 women and 33 minors.
During that period, 17 journalists, 43 lawyers, 28 doctors, 10 university faculty members, and 178 students were recycled in connection with other cases.
During 2023, 229 recycled cases were documented in connection with other cases
206 transfer incidents were documented in the first half of 2024
Some transfer cases during the second half of 2024
- A report of the type of consolidated report, number 116, was prepared at the Second Tenth of Ramadan Police Station, where 3
- detainees were investigated by the Zagazig General Prosecution
- 6 detainees were transferred under report number 49 and placed in the Tenth of Ramadan Security Forces Camp.
- Detainee Tariq Saeed Abdel Hamid Bahnasy was transferred in connection with consolidated report number 48.
- In September, detainee Mohamed Hussein El-Genainy, 26 years old, was transferred in connection with a new case
- Warda Gomaa was transferred in connection with a third case, number 305 of 2022, Supreme State Security. She was arrested by National Security forces in August 2019, then presented to the State Security Prosecution in case number 1235 of 2019, Supreme State Security. In September 2020, the Cairo Criminal Court decided to release her, but the decision was not implemented, and she was
- Remanded in custody in connection with Case No. 855 of 2020, Supreme State Security Prosecution
- Lawyer Hoda Abdel Moneim, detained in the Tenth of Ramadan Prison, was summoned for questioning in connection with a new case—a third—No. 800 of 2019, Supreme State Security Prosecution.
Murder by Medical Negligence
During 2013, 73 people were killed as a result of medical negligence.
During 2014, 166 people were killed as a result of medical negligence.
During 2015, 185 people were killed as a result of medical negligence.
During 2016, 121 people were killed as a result of medical negligence.
During 2017, 80 people were killed as a result of medical negligence.
During 2018, 36 people were killed as a result of medical negligence.
During 2019, 40 people were killed as a result of medical negligence
During 2020, 73 people were killed as a result of medical negligence.
During 2021, 40 people were killed as a result of medical negligence.
During 2022, 40 people were killed as a result of medical negligence.
During 2023, 32 people were killed as a result of medical negligence
During 2024, 27 people were killed as a result of medical negligence.
During 2025, 28 people were killed as a result of medical negligence.
The total number of deaths due to medical negligence is 941.
Fourth: Women
Thousands of women in Egypt were subjected to physical and psychological torture, cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment while in various detention facilities and during their arrest.
The authorities also used other arbitrary measures against women, including:
At least 530 female students were dismissed from their university studies, including Omaima Kamel, Narmin Mohamed, Hanan Amin, and two other female faculty members who were dismissed from their jobs.
Decisions were also issued to confiscate the property of at least 100 women, and more than 106 women were prevented from traveling outside the country.
Examples of women in prisons
1- Shadia Hassan El-Naggar
2- Magda Ibrahim Houda
3- Marwa Abu Zeid
4- Hoda Abdel Moneim
5- Marwa Arafa
6- Aisha Khairat El-Shater
7- Aya Kamal Hussein
8- Samia Maher Hazima
9- Hasiba Mahsoub
10- Rabab Abdel Mohsen Abdel Azim Mahmoud
11- Salsabil El-Gharbawi
12- Naglaa Mokhtar Younis
13- Asmaa El-Sayed Abdel Raouf
14- Narmin Hussein
15- Nada Moghith
16- Iman Abdel Wahab
17- Samia Shennan
Fifth: Parliamentarians
The number of parliamentarians detained by the Egyptian regime has reached 101.
The number of parliamentarians who have died in Egyptian regime prisons due to medical negligence and ill-treatment has reached 11.
The number of parliamentarians sentenced to death has reached
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Mr. AHMED GAMAL