So far, releases have been determined on a case-by-case basis
Hundreds of prisoners are languishing on death row, waiting for their sentences to be carried out.
Conflicting decisions in the last few weeks have raised questions from critics as to whether President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s government is actually keen on implementing real political and economic reform.…
A list of 165 detainees pardoned by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday for the holy month of Ramadan did not include detainees in major protest-related cases that activists and…
The final list of names rests with the president, one source said
203 people convicted on charges connected to illegal assembly and protest have been pardoned
The pardons announced last week by Sisi include some detainees and not others on similar charges, and even in the same case.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a decree on Thursday to pardon 82 people being held in Egypt’s prisons.
A committee formed by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to prepare names of political detainees for potential release has drawn up an…
Coinciding with the first day of the Eid holiday on Monday, the Egyptian government began releasing prisoners whom Sisi had been pardoned…
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