The Egyptian authorities are attempting to normalize human rights violations by passing a series of laws to “legalize” their escalating crackdown on freedom of expression, association and assembly, said Amnesty International, six years since recently [ More … ]
Even if the White House is in denial about al-Sisi’s harm to regional instability, Congress shouldn’t be. On the last day of 1977, President Jimmy Carter called U.S. ally Iran “an island of stability in [ More … ]
Nine international human rights organizations and Western think tanks on Wednesday 2 April issued a joint statement titled, “Reprisal Against Award-Winning Actors Amr Waked and Khaled Abol Naga for Speaking Out Against Repression”. The joint [ More … ]
Egypt’s brutal crackdown on workers’ rights runs far deeper than the fate of two actors. In case anyone should underestimate the regime’s fear of union power, let us remember the story of murdered student Giulio [ More … ]
While there may be ” a special place for hell” for those who backed Brexit without a plan, regimes that execute people after fundamentally flawed trials get their own summit, wrote Rhys Davies. Just a [ More … ]
There must be consequences when a country violates human rights. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case, writes journalist Rainer Hermann from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In his article, “EU must hold Egypt accountable on human [ More … ]
The UN human rights office voiced concern about trials that saw 15 people executed in Egypt this month may have been unfair amid allegations of torture used to obtain confessions. Egypt executed nine men on [ More … ]
US organization Freedom House has ranked Egypt 126th out of 195 countries when it comes to public freedoms. According to a new report by the organization based on 2018 data, Egypt and Sri Lanka “are [ More … ]
The Saudi Engine of Repression Continues to Run at Full Speed [ More … ]
Although al-Sisi’s claim that is Egypt is going on the right path, however, to many observers, Al-Sisi is making the situation even worse than during Mubarak’s era. This week in Foreign Policy,an American news publication, [ More … ]
Egypt’s leader silences the West by claiming to fight terrorism while at home his economy collapses, civil society grows atomised and violence is starting to spread Egypt’s decision to host its first international weapons fair, which [ More … ]
A new package of austerity measures was announced by the Egyptian government on November 7, in response to ballooning public debt. The measures included liberalizing the price of bread flour as of January 1, 2019, [ More … ]
Gulf states are asserting themselves more than ever, and that’s a problem for the U.S. Three years ago, then Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter attributed Iran’s growing dominance to its being “in the game, on [ More … ]
Why Restoring the Rule of Law is the Best Way Forward? To Stop Sisi, Strengthen Egypt’s Judiciary, according to Foreign Affairs . Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s Egypt is a dangerous place for dissidents. Under Sisi’s command, [ More … ]
A press freedom group has called on Egyptian authorities to reverse their decision to take over a daily newspaper, a day after security forces stormed its headquarters. Reporters Without Borders that the decision to take [ More … ]
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