Tuesday’s assassination of Colonel Wael Tahoun, the former head of the notorious Matareya Police Station, has reignited discussions about violence in the eastern Cairo suburb. Two masked gunmen shot Tahoun…
A couple of days after clashes in Matareya around the fourth anniversary of the January 25 revolution, Hajj Hazem, who owns a candy shop right next to Al-Rahman mosque, was still clearing glass after a…
Matareya Hospital in northeast Cairo has been closed for two days due to reports of police intimidation and threats against two physicians. On…
Two doctors allegedly assaulted by police officers in a Matareya hospital on Thursday have dropped all charges against their assailants following "threats"…
Activist Khaled al-Sayed is among 52 defendants referred to military trial on charges of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood, inciting murder and…
Over 100 lawyers staged a protest outside the headquarters of the Lawyers Syndicate in Downtown Cairo on Sunday over the torture and…
Recently deceased lawyer Karim Hamdy was tortured to death at the notorious Matareya Police Station, an autopsy report released on Thursday concluded.…
Responding to reports of torture and rape in prisons, the Deputy Minister of Interior for Media, Abdel Fattah Othman, said in…
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