Year: 2019

The New Egyptian capital: Lies about funding, foreign investors flee

President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi announced the establishment of a new capital for Egypt in March 2015 and the project rushed into implementation so fast disregarding both any criticism pointed at it and legitimate questions about its benefit in the circumstances…

Mohamed Ali: al-Sisi will fall within 3 months

The Egyptian businessman and actor Mohamed Ali has said that he intends to broadcast a new video within three weeks which will cause a political earthquake that will shatter General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s world. He said that al-Sisi’s rule will…

Jihad al-Haddad is dying in prison

Egyptian political detainee Jihad al-Haddad has lost the ability to walk as a result of torture and medical neglect lasting six years. During al-Haddad’s appearance in court last week, the 38-year-old prisoner entered the State Security Prosecution hearing room carried…

In Egypt, a judicial release does not mean you are going home

While the world considers that judgments are enforceable, judgments in favour of Egyptian opponents are not, especially if they mean their release and return to their homes. The most recent of these judicial orders were in favour of the former…

Enforced disappearances are practiced daily in Egypt

In what appears to be a new escalation of the Egyptian regime against its opponents, the policy of enforced disappearance for open periods has begun to expand in an unprecedented manner. Enforced disappearance is more a violation of human rights…

“Watch iT”, a new step in the state monopoly of entertainment industry

On May 25th, The United Media Services company, headed by Tamer Morsi, the owner of the Egyptian Media Group and Di Media company, signed a new protocol with National Media Authority, headed by Hussein Zain, in the context of preserving…

A military court sentences 26 workers to dismissal and suspended imprisonment

After 3 years of custody, the military misdemeanors court sentenced 26 workers to suspended imprisonment for a year and dismissal from their jobs at the Alexandria Shipyard Company. On May 22, 2016; hundreds of workers of Alexandria Shipyard organised a…

Egypt’s parliament approves extending state of emergency for 3 months

CAIRO, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) — Egypt’s parliament, House of Representatives, approved on Monday a presidential decree extending the state of emergency in the country for further three months starting from October 27, 2019, official news agency MENA reported. “Declaring a…

Egypt forces kill dozens of militants in Sinai

Egyptian army forces have killed 83 militants as part of a security campaign in the restive Sinai Peninsula, according to a military spokesman on Monday. In a statement, Colonel Tamer al-Refai said 77 militants have also been arrested in northern…

Extending the state of emergency is about resisting protesters, not terrorists

For the tenth time, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a decision on Saturday to declare a state of emergency in Egypt, starting from 26 October 2019 for three months. Al-Sisi said that he had come to face the “dangerous…