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Egypt: Human rights concerns as EU promises Egypt $84m in migration deal

June 21, 2022 MEO Staff

Egypt’s coastguard is set to receive €80 million ($84.2 million) from the EU to prevent boats carrying asylum seekers from leaving its shores for Europe. A paper drafted by the EU Commission last week says [ More … ]

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Egypt: EU backs Sisi despite his human rights atrocities

June 17, 2022 MEO Staff

As the European Union is supporting the Egyptian government financially to face the country’s economic hardships, it should also back the Egyptian people in the face of the regime’s abuses. Last Wednesday, Ursula von der [ More … ]

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Egypt: Despite release of a few political prisoners, thousands remain behind bars

June 5, 2022 MEO Staff

Blogger Abdelrahman “Mocha” Tarek, translator Kholoud Saied, accountant Alaa Essam, former MP Mohamed Mohie Eddin, and Hussein Khamis have been released from the pretrial detention. However, thousands of political prisoners are still suffering behind bars. [ More … ]

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A day after slamming Egypt’s rights abuses, Blinken welcomes Shoukry in Washington

April 14, 2022 MEO Staff

Only one day after he publicly highlighted the case of unjustly imprisoned human rights lawyer Mohamed El-Baqer on 12 April, Antony Blinken welcomed Sameh Shoukry, describing the U.S.-Egypt relations as “strategic partnership”. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken publicly highlighted the [ More … ]

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Egypt: Journalists call for releasing jailed colleagues and stopping targeting independent news sites

April 3, 2022 MEO Staff

Egyptian journalists meeting with the government’s National Council for Human Rights demanded that the government stop blocking independent news sites and release their jailed colleagues, reported Darb. Members of the government’s National Council for Human [ More … ]

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Egypt: After executions, official rights council meets affected rights leaders

March 14, 2022 MEO Staff

The official human rights council has met with heads of several human rights organizations that continue to face intense repression from the state. Some participants said dialogue without genuine political will for reform is just [ More … ]

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Egypt: 21 rights organizations call for ending arbitrary detention

March 11, 2022 MEO Staff

Twelve Egyptian activists have been on hunger strike since early February 2022 in protest of their prolonged pre-trial detention at Tora Prison Complex. Among those activists are: Abdelrahman Tarek (Moka), Ahmed Maher (Rigo), Galal El [ More … ]

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Egypt: Human Rights Violations Continuing in Sisi’s Prisons

February 15, 2022 MEO Staff

Among signs of ongoing human rights violations in Sisi’s prisons, there are three most recent stories in this regard: a death in detention, a hunger strike, and a painful family separation These stories demonstrate the [ More … ]

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European MPs raise concerns to their governments about Human rights in Egypt!

February 3, 2022 MEO Staff

A joint letter by European MPs urges establishment of a UN rights monitoring mechanism on Egypt A joint letter by various European members of parliaments have urged foreign ministers, and ambassadors to the UN Human [ More … ]

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US decision to halt Egypt military aid over rights necessary but insufficient, rights groups

February 2, 2022 MEO Staff

In a joint statement, 19 human rights organizations have called on the Biden administration to stop economic aids and arms sales to Egypt, as long as the government continues to perpetrate egregious human rights violations. [ More … ]

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Egypt: US blocks $130 millions of aid to Cairo over human rights record

January 28, 2022 MEO Staff

The Biden administration has decided to deny $130 million of military aid allocated for Egypt over the country’s failure to comply with human rights conditions laid out by the State Department, according to a senior [ More … ]

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US House Democrats Press Blinken on Military Aid to Egypt

January 26, 2022 MEO Staff

In a letter to the US secretary of state, lawmakers described Egypt’s human rights violations as “pervasive and systemic”. House Democrats on Tuesday urged Secretary of State Antony Blinken to reprogram a portion of Egypt’s [ More … ]

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Egypt: On the 11th. anniversary of Jan. revolution, rights situation seems dire

January 25, 2022 MEO Staff

On the anniversary of Egypt’s January revolution that led to overthrowing dictator Hosni Mubarak, the rights situation in Egypt seems dire, and social media activists slam General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s comments on human rights. As [ More … ]

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Egypt: Rights organization “ANHRI” suspends its activities due to police harassment

January 10, 2022 MEO Staff

In the absence of the bare minimum of the rule of law and respect for human rights The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) decides to suspend its activities, ANHRI said in a statement [ More … ]

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Egypt: Rights defenders condemn prison sentences of Elaimi, Moanes, Fouad, and others

November 19, 2021 MEO Staff

Human rights defenders have rushed to condemn the prison sentence against former parliamentarian Ziad El-Elaimy, journalists Hisham Fouad and Hossam Moanis, and three others, The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies and seven other Egyptian [ More … ]

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