December 19th, 2017105
Original Source: http://time.com/5070017/egypt-captive-americans/
By ELIZABETH DIAS
December 19, 2017
When Vice President Mike Pence visits Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in January, more is at stake than the fallout from President Trump’s controversial decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to...
December 17th, 201793Original Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/families-of-americans-imprisoned-in-egypt-pin-their-hopes-on-mike-pence_us_5a359556e4b01d429cc9597f
WASHINGTON ― Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday will be in the heart of official Cairo, meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to affirm the U.S....
December 15th, 2017167Today Ola Al-Qaradawi turns 56 years old. Instead of celebrating another milestone in her life with friends,family, and her grandchildren, Ola is being held in isolation for 24 hours a day. She is forcibly disconnected from the outside world and from her loved ones. What should be a joyous occasion has now become another reminder of...
December 13th, 2017196Last week the US Congress Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission held a hearing on the current human rights situation in Egypt. Republican Congressman Randy Hultgren chaired the hearing and opened the session by discussing a wide range of human rights violations. He highlighted Ola and Hosam’s situation as a case that has special interest...
December 1st, 2017144Ola Al-Qaradawi and Hosam Khalaf have been arbitrarily detained for 152 days since their arrest on June 30th 2017. The length of detainment and the severity of the conditions which Ola and Hosam are subjected to has triggered Amnesty International to issue a renewed urgent action to call for their freedom .
According to...
December 1st, 2017224LINK TO ORIGINAL: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde12/7506/2017/en/
URGENT ACTION
DETAINED COUPLE’S HEALTH CRITICALLY DETERIORATING
Ola al-Qaradawy and her husband Hossam Khalaf have been arrested on unfound charges and held in poor prison conditions. Although Hossam Khalaf has been transferred to a collective cell, Ola...
November 26th, 2017210Yesterday Ola Al-Qaradawi was transported from her solitary confinement cell in Al Qanater prison to a criminal court located in the police academy in the Torah prison complex. Today her husband Hosam Khalaf was similarly brought from his cell in Torah prison to the same criminal court for his detainment extension. The judge ruled to...
November 21st, 2017154Today Ola was transferred to the prosecutor’s office from her solitary confinement cell in Qanatir Prison. Lawyers waited for her arrival but she never showed up. Lawyers were informed that she would be transferred to a criminal court for detainment extensions by a judge rather than a prosecutor early next week.
Egyptian system...
November 13th, 2017115Today Hosam was transported early morning from Tora Prison to the State Security Prosecutor’s office for his routine extension.
He was once again extended for another 15 days without due process. To date no charges have been filed and he has been held in solitary confinement pretrial detainment for 135 days.
Ola and Hosam, as...