As soon as Sisi on 25 October announced lifting the state of emergency across the country, eight human rights organizations stated that the move had only little impact in practice Eight human rights organizations have [ More … ]
Insufficient evidence has recently led a judge to end the investigations into four more NGOs in Case 173/2011, known as the foreign funding case. The four NGOs are the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, [ More … ]
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has issued an alert about three journalists held in Egypt’s prisons who are denied proper medical attention for serious ailments they suffer from. The RSF organization says they must be released [ More … ]
A Cannes-honored feature film, titled “Feathers” has sparked great uproar and controversy in Egypt, with claims of contempt of the country and highlighting poverty in the Egyptian society. Ironically, about 33% of Egyptians are living [ More … ]
Social media users have been shocked at learning that a female pharmacist that had complained of being exposed to bullying from her colleagues, was accused by the Egyptian Prosecution of belonging to a terrorist organization. [ More … ]
The Zagazig Criminal Court sentenced Moataz Matar and Hossam El-Shorbagy, presenters of Al-Sharq and Mekameleen channels respectively, to 15 years in prison each, on charges of court contempt, and others. Egypt’s Zagazig Criminal Court in [ More … ]
Late President Anwar Sadat’s nephew, Mohamed Sadat, seems to have recently become an unofficial negotiator on behalf of Egypt’s political prisoners, but seemingly with little success opportunities. Recently a delegation was sent by Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi [ More … ]
Last September, HRW found in an extensive report that Egyptian Interior Ministry forces have killed dozens, perhaps hundreds, of secretly held dissidents in extrajudicial executions in recent years, said Amr Magdi, HRW researcher, Middle East [ More … ]
Five human rights organizations have new reports about the human rights situation in Egypt, where they have documented the continued violations of fundamental rights in Egypt under Sisi, reported the Committee for Justice . Amnesty [ More … ]
An Egyptian military court on Wednesday upheld life sentences for 32 people accused of plotting to kill Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and a former Saudi crown prince, the defendants’ lawyer said. Egyptian military’s high appeals court [ More … ]
Egypt has ranked fifth worldwide in underreporting coronavirus and first in the Middle East, according to a report recently published by the World Bank, citing a research paper. According to the World Bank report, Egypt’s [ More … ]
The first day of the new school year (2021-2022) in Egypt, on Sunday, witnessed a severe classroom over-crowdedness in most public schools; and even some classrooms had no seats, where pupils were prompted to sit [ More … ]
Lawyers of Ziad El-Elaimy, a former parliamentarian, and journalists Hisham Fouad and Hossam Moanis have finally been able to present their defense on Oct. 6, but the trial was adjourned to Oct. 20, according to [ More … ]
The Egyptian authorities on 6 October 2021 renewed the pre-trial detention of Ola Al-Qaradawi for a period of 45 days. The daughter of prominent Islamic scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi has already been detained for four [ More … ]
A campaign to free jailed activist has called for releasing Ramy Shaath upon appeals from his family to see his 83-year-old father who has suffered a severe deterioration in his health. The campaign to free [ More … ]
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