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Egypt: Court hands out life sentences over popular protests

January 20, 2023 MEO Staff

An Egyptian terrorism court has handed life sentences to Egyptian actor and contractor Mohamed Ali and 37 others in connection with 2019 protests The protests then called for the resignation of Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi [ More … ]

Iran Latest News

Iran: Amid continued protests, gov. between repression and need for reform

January 3, 2023 MEO Staff

Amid the rift between the Iranian government and people that has recently become greater than ever and an impasse in foreign policy, an easy new year, 2023, is unlikely. According to a recent report by [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egyptian-American activist ‘Sherif Osman’ back to US after release from UAE

December 29, 2022 MEO Staff

After detention in UAE, human rights groups had feared Sherif Osman would be extradited to Egypt and face imprisonment and torture after calling for protests on 11 November The Egyptian-American national arrived in the United [ More … ]

Iran Latest News

Iran Removed From UN Commission On Women

December 15, 2022 MEO Staff

Twenty-nine out of 54 members voted to expel Iran from the UN commission on women over regime’s crackdown on protests sparked by the death of a young woman in the custody. Eight member states voted [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egyptians detained ahead of Cop27 in relation to calls for protests are still behind bars

November 25, 2022 MEO Staff

The COP27 may have ended, but many of the Egyptians preemptively detained in connection with calls for protests during the conference remain behind bars. Egyptian authorities arrested hundreds of people around the country leading up [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Sisi pushed into the corner by Egypt’s difficult economic situation and his dire human rights record

October 25, 2022 MEO Staff

The Egypt Economic Conference, a three-day, government-organized forum about the future of Egypt’s economy, kicked off in Cairo Sunday with self-congratulatory speeches from Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and other state leaders. After decades of poor economic [ More … ]

Tunisia

Tunisia: Following crackdown on protests, rights groups warn ‘freedoms at risk’

January 18, 2022 MEO Staff

Rights groups say freedoms ‘face an imminent peril’ after police used water cannons and tear gas at a demonstration against President Kais Saied last week Tunisian human rights groups have warned that freedoms in the [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Sisi: Ready for annual elections but costs to be covered from abroad

January 15, 2022 MEO Staff

Addressing foreign journalists at the World Youth Forum, Sisi says he is ready to hold elections in Egypt on an annual basis on condition of not bearing the financial cost. While addressing foreign journalists at [ More … ]

Sudan

Sudan arrests Al Jazeera bureau chief “Kabbashi” following protests

November 14, 2021 MEO Staff

Sudan security forces raided the home of Al Jazeera’s Khartoum bureau chief, El Musalmi El Kabbashi, and arrested him on Sunday, a day after street protests across Sudan against the military takeover, reported Reuters. Security [ More … ]

Tunisia

Tunisia: Protests outbreak in capital over president’s exceptional procedures

September 18, 2021 MEO Staff

Tunisian demonstrators in Tunis chanted ‘the people want the coup to fail’ and called for restoration of parliament Hundreds of Tunisians took to the streets in the capital, Tunis, on Saturday to protest against President [ More … ]

Palestine Latest News

PA may be on the verge of losing control of the West Bank, say activists

August 26, 2021 MEO Staff

Months of increasing repression and arrests leave even those supporting the Palestinian Authority wondering if it is on the verge of collapse Middle East Eye has reported that while a Palestinian Authority insider last weekend [ More … ]

Israel Latest News

The world reacts to Israel’s brutal crimes in Jerusalem

May 8, 2021 MEO Staff

More than 200 Palestinian worshippers wounded in Al-Aqsa amid growing anger over Israeli plans to evict Palestinian families from occupied East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah. Tens of thousands of worshippers had earlier packed Islam’s third-holiest site [ More … ]

Tunisia

Tunisia: 200 people arrested in violent protests

January 18, 2021 MEO Staff

More than 200 people were arrested after “riots” targeting public and private property in Tunisia, according to an official in the Tunisian Ministry of Interior. An official in the Tunisian Ministry of Interior said yesterday [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Calls for restraint in Sudan after death of child in Egypt

November 4, 2020 MEO Staff

Sudan called on Tuesday upon its citizens in Egypt to exercise self-restraint after the murder of a Sudanese child in Giza to the west of Cairo, Anadolu Agency has reported. “We are following up on the murder [ More … ]

Israel Latest News

Seeking Netanyahu’s Resignation, Thousands of Protestors Defy the Lockdown

October 5, 2020 MEO Staff

Thousands of Israelis have protested across the country for the 15th week in a row, flouting a new law meant to curb anti-government demonstrations during a coronavirus lockdown. The street protests on Saturday and into [ More … ]

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