Israel’s move to shut down a key healthcare body in the occupied territories will have “catastrophic consequences” for Palestinians in need of medical attention, global rights group Amnesty International warned. Israeli army forces raided the [ More … ]
Several Palestinians killed in new wave of Israeli raids on Gaza as Benjamin Netanyahu vows to continue attacks ‘as long as necessary’!! Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip entered its seventh consecutive day with air [ More … ]
France is selling another 30 Rafale fighter jets to Egypt in a deal condemned last Tuesday by rights advocates, including the French wife of a jailed activist. The deal, confirmed separately by both countries, will [ More … ]
Five leading Egyptian human rights organizations yesterday announced a list of seven necessary, clear, and urgent measures to stop the unprecedented erosion of human rights that Egypt has witnessed over the past years. The five [ More … ]
Contrary to what the producers of “The Choice 2” series had hoped for, the fifth episode of the series evoked memories for hundreds of activists about the truth of what happened in the dispersal of [ More … ]
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 … ]
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