Egypt: Rights Activist Assaulted

Expand Gamal Eid after the December 29, 2019 assault in Cairo, Egypt in which he was beaten and had paint thrown at him.  © 2019   (Beirut) – Armed men, who appear to have been security forces, physically attacked prominent Egyptian human rights lawyer Gamal Eid in Cairo on December 29, 2019, Human Rights Watch said today. This was the second assault against Eid since October. Eid, the executive director of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANRHI), told Human Rights Watch that in the morning when he left his home in Cairo’s Maadi district, three cars without license plates were…

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