| 5,975,434 |
31.41648 |
31.81332 |
Egypt |
|
Masked security agents wearing civilian clothes and police uniforms raided a the home of a journalist in Damietta at dawn on 21 February, arrested the journalist, seized his laptop and his mobile phone, and took him away in a police vehcile. Four days after his arrest, he reported that he had been subject to torture by electricshock on four separate occasions and that security officers had pressured him to confess tocrimes he did not commit. |
| 5,975,439 |
30.58768 |
31.502 |
Egypt |
|
A group of lawyers in Sharqeya claimed that a police conscript "kidnapped" their colleague in a case of enforced disappearance. The Ministry of Interior denied the claims. |
| 5,975,443 |
30.07708 |
31.28591 |
Egypt |
|
A prominent journalist and head of the Freedoms Committee at the Press Syndicat and a committee member held a sit-in on 29 February in an open strike at the syndicate toprotestthe poor conditions in prisons for detained journalists. |
| 5,975,447 |
29.95072 |
31.27738 |
Egypt |
|
Under the title "I'm Human", some of Al-Aqrab (Tora) Prison detainees began a sit-in on 29 February inside the prison toprotestthe violations committed by the prison administration against the prisoners and their families |
| 5,975,451 |
31.13159 |
33.79844 |
Egypt |
|
An Egyptian man was beheaded and his teenage son shot dead in the Al-Arish in North Sinai on 29 February. No militant group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. Activists claimed that the two men were assassinated by members of "Sinai Province", but this has not been confirmed. |
| 5,975,454 |
26.7693 |
31.50214 |
Egypt |
|
Passengers on a ferry that hit a fishing boat in Tahta, Sohag, Upper Egypt assaulted the captain, who was then taken to hospital. |
| 5,975,458 |
31.2163 |
34.11074 |
Egypt |
|
Three soldiers were killed on 2 March during anattackon an army patrol near Sinai's Sheikh Zuweid. An IED ambush caught the patrol near Al-Wahshi checkpoint. At least one soldier was injured. The Sinai Province, the affiliate of the "Islamic State" (IS) in Egypt, claimed the attack. |
| 5,975,462 |
30.23356 |
34.24931 |
Egypt |
|
In Sinai on 2 March, a roadside bomb killed a conscript and wounded three soldiers when it struck a convoy of Humvees during a manhunt for a prominent militant leader. The attack was in the Khariza area near the town of Qasima. State of Sinai circulated reports which claimed the attack. |
| 5,975,466 |
30.07708 |
31.28591 |
Egypt |
|
Hundreds of Egyptian journalists organised aproteston 2 March in front of the Press Syndicate to demand the release of fellow detained journalists andprotestthe state's tacit acceptance of their deteriorating health. |
| 5,975,470 |
30.31269 |
31.32018 |
Egypt |
|
The head of Shubra el Khayma criminal investigation department was killed during a security campaign to arrest a Khanka massacre suspect. The campaign took place in Ja'fra area in the Al-Qalubiyah central region of Shibin al-Qanatir. |
