Egypt: On November 15, 2017, Egypt’s Emergency State Security Misdemeanor Court released the 24 Nubian activists – also known as the Dafoof Detainees – and rescheduled their trial for December 12, 2017. On November 5, 2017, one of the detainees, prominent activist and businessman Gamal Sorour, died from a diabetic coma in detention after authorities…
On September 3, 2017, Egyptian authorities arrested 24 Nubian activists, including human rights lawyers Maysara Abdoun and Mohamed Azmy, during a peaceful demonstration in Aswan, Egypt. The activists’ protests drew attention to the forced displacement of Nubians from their historic lands between 1912 and 1964 and demanded that the Egyptian government grant them “their right…
Detained Congolese activist Timothée Mbuya, president of the human rights organization Justicia, has now spent over two months behind bars for participating in a peaceful protest on July 31, 2017. Mbuya was arrested alongside four other activists in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo. While Mbuya’s trial is still pending, the other four activists lost their…
Bahrain: On September 27, 2017, a Bahraini court postponed for the 16th time the trial of Nabeel Rajab and rescheduled it for November 19, 2017. Rajab is president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, and is facing charges for his Twitter posts criticizing Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen. Currently, Rajab is serving a two-year sentence…