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Egypt: For 12th. Time in a Row, Sisi Renews State of Emergency for 3 Months

April 28, 2020 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt regime has targeted NGos for years, now it has realized their importance

March 26, 2020 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

More Egyptians die in Sisi’s prisons due to medical negligence

February 10, 2020 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt: Journalists Arbitrarily Arrested and Beaten as Repression of Media Grows

October 15, 2019 Ahmed Rashed

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

A Revolution is Brewing in Egypt – and This Time It Will Spread Far beyond Tahrir Square: Independent

October 4, 2019 Ahmed Rashed

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 … ]

Saudi Arabia News

Detained Saudi Journalist Honored at RSF Press Freedom Awards

September 13, 2019 MEO Staff

Eman al-Nafjan, who could face up to 20 years in jail for campaigning for women’s rights in Saudi Arabia, has been awarded the Prize for Courage by Reporters Without Borders This came in a statement [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Amnesty: Series of draconian laws ‘legalizes’ unprecedented repression 6 years since overthrow of Egypt’s Morsi

July 3, 2019 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Sisi Crushes Dissent and Fuels ISIS

April 4, 2019 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

9 Rights Organizations and Think Tanks Criticize Sisi’s Move against Actors ‘Waked and Abol Naga’ in a Joint Statement

April 3, 2019 MEO Staff

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 Latest News

Egypt’s brutal repression runs far deeper than the fate of Waked and Abul Naga: Column

March 29, 2019 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt Executed 15 People in February. Why Is UK Staying Silent: The Guardian

March 13, 2019 Ahmed Rashed

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 … ]

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EU Must Hold Egypt Accountable on Human Rights

March 9, 2019 Ahmed Rashed

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 … ]

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UN concerned about flawed trials and torture in Egypt

February 26, 2019 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt ranked 126th in world for freedom

February 15, 2019 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Saudi Arabia News

Saudi Engine of Repression Continues to Run at Full Speed

January 14, 2019 MEO Staff

The Saudi Engine of Repression Continues to Run at Full Speed [ More … ]

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