Eight prominent Egyptian human rights organisations called on the Egyptian authorities to enact real reform at prisons and detention centres, rather than merely adopting a law that they described as a “farce…intended to provide an illusion of reform.” “The undersigned human rights organizations consider these amendments to prison nomenclature as nothing but frivolous formalities…evocative of the National Human Rights Strategy declared by the president….in September 2021,” the eight groups said in a statement released on Tuesday. Earlier this month, a new law was passed by the Egyptian parlia…

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