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 … ]
‘Without early presidential elections, and a major and fundamental reset in the regime’s brutal approach, Egypt will continue hurtling towards catastrophe’, says Egypt’s former investment minister. Yehia Hamed, the former investment minister who served in [ More … ]
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 … ]
The Egyptian regime has successfully silenced the country’s independent environmentalists in the run-up to hosting this year’s UN climate talks, according to the environment director of Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch (HRW) Environment Director [ More … ]
How can COP27 take place in a country where independent civic activism, peaceful protests, free speech are all effectively banned?, wondered Amy W. Hawthorne, human rights expert and research director at the Project on Middle [ More … ]
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 … ]
Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has invited CNN anchor John Defterios to moderate a dialogue session at the conference and witness the developments taking place in the country. This came during the International Petroleum Technology Conference [ More … ]
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 … ]
The move by Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi theoretically rolls back sweeping powers the government wielded in the name of fighting terrorism, but critics called it only a cosmetic change, according to the NYT chief Cairo [ More … ]
Reprieve, a US-based legal action non-profit organization, has released a new report on the death penalty which reveals that Egypt remains the fifth largest executioner worldwide. Since Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi rose to power in a military [ More … ]
Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has extended the state of emergency for three months “due to the dangerous security and health conditions” in the country, according to what was published in the official newspaper Monday night. [ More … ]
As part of efforts to take precautionary measures in the fight against the Coronavirus, the Egyptian Ministry of Health has recently started calling out for volunteers. ‘Be a Hero’ is the title of the central [ More … ]
Two more Egyptians died Sunday in jail as a result of their “deteriorating health conditions”, local media reported. One of the detainees was identified as 61-year-old Ibrahim Al-Batea, who died of “a stroke due to [ More … ]
Esraa Abdel Fattah was detained on Saturday, October 12 by plainclothes police officers and the following morning another journalist Mostafa al-Khatib was also arrested. These arrests came after Italian journalist Francesca Borri was detained on [ More … ]
It all started on Friday 20 September. Tens of hundreds of people took to the streets across Egypt calling for the removal of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Not a big deal for a population of 100 [ More … ]
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