GENEVA (11 December 2019) – UN human rights experts* have called on Egypt to end the arbitrary detention and ill-treatment of Ramy Kamel Saied Salid, who works to defend the human rights of the country’s Coptic Christian minority. Mr. Ramy Kamel, who had documented attacks on Coptic churches, was arrested, questioned and allegedly tortured on 4 November and 23 November 2019. He is currently in pre-trial detention in the Tora Prison in Cairo on reported charges of membership of a terrorist organisation and use of social media to spread “false…
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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 11 December 2019. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.
