US President Joe Biden and other U.S. officials cozied up to Egypt’s Sisi at COP27 while occasionally “raising” the issue of human rights. Away from COP27, Alaa Abdel Fattah sent his family a letter, the [ More … ]
On the 3-year anniversary of their arrest, a global coalition of more than 40 organisations calls on Egyptian authorities to drop all charges and promptly release writer/pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah and human rights lawyer Mohamed El-Baqer. [ More … ]
Family of detained British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah are concerned about his life after prison authorities said he refused visit with his mother last Sunday The family of activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has grown increasingly worried [ More … ]
The most recent verdict against three prominent activists, including Alaa Abdel Fattah, the icon of the January Revolution (2011) has raised widespread international condemnations, especially that the verdict was issued by an emergency court. Last [ More … ]
Viral footage of an interview with a renowned Egyptian musician about his imprisonment with the two sons of former President Hosni Mubarak sparked widespread controversy in Egypt, amid criticism of those privileged conditions and the [ More … ]
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