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Alert: What do you need to know if you are an immigrant in Egypt during the security crackdown because of protest calls during COP 27?
During the past weeks, Egyptian human rights organizations have documented campaigns of arbitrary arrests in some areas in Cairo and other governorates. The campaigns included arresting pedestrians in the streets, verifying their personal identities, searching the contents of mobile phones and social media, and detaining people for hours. The organizations also documented the arrest of...
At least 18 Egyptians missing after a migrant boat carrying Egyptians and Syrians capsized off the coast of Libya
The security of the coasts of the Libyan city of Tobruk announced, on Saturday morning, that a boat carrying a group of irregular migrants sank off the “Umm Al-Shawsh Valley and the Ras Bayad resort” late Friday night. Asriwa Saleh, executive director of the Transit Foundation for Migrants Assistance in Libya, said that the boat...