Since July 3rd, 2013, the Egyptian regime embarked on a reign of an unprecedented crackdown on civic and political space.
Repression has reached women and children targeting women, children and minorities. Navigate the Egypt Prison Atlas to learn about the prisoners, their cases, and their plight and gain a deep understanding of the system of abuse.
*Note : This website’s data was last updated on December 31st, 2021. Starting from August 2022, the profiles of prisoners and judges will be updated monthly.
A young man once tried to soar high and felt that he could affect regime change through the January revolution.
He believed that freedom and love are the best things in life.
He participated as a doctor at Rabaa El Adawiya Mosque, where he saw the remains of martyrs and made efforts to save the lives of a few, but God willed to welcome them into paradise by his side, leaving us to continue demanding justice for the martyrs' rights.
By an Egyptian student in her mid-twenties. She began studying law but was imprisoned instead of being able to pursue her studies because of her arrest during a protest movement at the university. She chose to write anonymously for protection.
I am now free from the prison clamps and repression of guards and prison watchwomen.
After years of oppression, at a maximum, the concept of freedom for me has become limited to leaving the prison cells, being free when the door opens, being able to leave my room, going into the street and raising my head, and being able to see the sky without iron barriers and at my timing, not a time set by the whim of the prison officers or orders from political authorities.
