The Egyptian delegation to the 4th. Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on 15 March 2021 issued a statement in response to UNHRC joint Statement on Egypt issued on 12 March, calling [ More … ]
Well-informed Egyptian sources have revealed that unified directives have been circulated by the authorities in Cairo to institutions, councils and professional unions in order to respond to a statement issued by the United Nations, criticising [ More … ]
After more than 1,000 days in detention where she endured torture and hunger strikes, Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul released Wednesday 10th of February, 2021. A Saudi court sentenced Hathloul to close to six [ More … ]
A number of non-governmental organizations have written this letter ahead of the January 25th Foreign Affairs Council discussion on Egypt to raise serious concerns, once again, about the human rights crisis unfolding in the country [ More … ]
In a new escalation step by Sisi’s regime against his opponents abroad A new decision issued by the Egyptian government, headed by PM Mustafa Madbouly, regarding of the Egyptian Political Activist Ghada Nagiub, where Resolution [ More … ]
A new campaign has been launched in Egypt for the release of elderly and sick prisoners, The New Khaleej reported on Tuesday. The latest campaign by Batel (Void), a campaigning group created by Egyptian opposition [ More … ]
European Parliament denounces deteriorating human rights in Egypt [ More … ]
Paris conferred the Legion d’Honneur on Egyptian ruler as an apparent thank you for being a loyal customer of France’s arms industry, reports Borzou Daragahi France’s President Emmanuel Macron gifted Egypt’s authoritarian ruler Abdel Fattah al-Sisi [ More … ]
Karim Ennarah was detained in the resort town of Dahab in South Sinai while on vacation, EIPR said in a statement Egyptian authorities arrested a human rights defender on Wednesday, just a few days after his colleague [ More … ]
A committee specialising in the seizure of assets belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has filed a lawsuit to nationalise the funds of 89 members of the group, including the heirs of the deceased [ More … ]
Prominent Egyptian activist Sanaa Seif sister of imprisoned activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has been abducted outside the prosecutor general’s office in Cairo, according to a relative. Seif had been visiting the building to lodge an [ More … ]
Mada Masr Editor-in-chief Lina Attalah has been ordered released on LE 2,000 bail by the Maadi prosecution. She remains in police custody while her release is processed. Lina Attalah was detained after interviewing the mother [ More … ]
Under pressure from the Trump administration, Egypt released Reem Desouky, an art teacher from who was jailed over a Facebook page critical of Sisi. A Pennsylvania teacher, held in an Egyptian prison for nearly 10 [ More … ]
Shady Habash had been in prison for more than two years in pre-trial detention! The Egyptian filmmaker imprisoned without trial for more than two years for making a music video that mocked Sisi has died at [ More … ]
Egypt added on Saturday 13 people, including former lawmaker Zyad al-Elaimy, on the country’s “terrorism list” for collaborating with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood! Hundreds of people have been added to Egypt’s terrorism list in recent [ More … ]
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