07. April 2016 · Kommentare deaktiviert für Egypt Shuts Down Center Documenting Torture · Kategorien: Ägypten · Tags:

Quelle: Huffington Post

Egypt Shuts Down Center Documenting Torture

Tanya Monforte

Time

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The closing of the Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture comes on the heels of the death of Giulio Regeni, a scholar researching the labor movement in Egypt, who was found having been brutally tortured to death in a manner “frequently associated with the Egyptian security forces.” As international pressure mounts over his death, the Egyptian government shut down the Nadeem Center, citing “license violations.”

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07. April 2016 · Kommentare deaktiviert für Ägypten, Italien: 300 Boat-people gerettet · Kategorien: Ägypten, Italien · Tags:

Quelle: Migrant Report

The Italian Coastguard launched an overnight rescue on Thursday to rescue some 300 migrants from a vessel that left from Egypt.

Rome’s coordination centre received a May Day call from satellite phone on board the vessel on Wednesday April 6 at around 3pm. They were reached by coastguard vessels at around 1am.

In all 314 people (151 men, 51 women and 107 children) were rescued. They come from Syria, Egypt, Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Palestine, Libya and Sudan and the Comoros Islands.

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