Abdel Fattah al-Sisi continues endless state of emergency
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced on Saturday the renewal of the state of emergency for a new three month period starting from October 26, 2019, until January 26, 2020. Al-Sisi evoked the emergency law from the year 1958, on October 25,…
Esraa Abdel Fattah’s lawyer demands she’s transferred to hospital after hunger strike
Ahmed Ragheb, lawyer of the well-known activist and journalist Esraa Abdel Fattah, has sent a request to the attorney general, the interior minister and other concerned officials demanding Esraa is admitted to hospital to save her life. On October 13,…
‘I was whipped with metal chains in an Egyptian prison’
For Ibrahim Halawa, what began as a family holiday in 2013 became four years in an Egyptian prison. The Irish Egyptian student was arrested at a Cairo mosque after a sit-in protest descended into clashes with security forces. He was…
Patients in Egypt suffer from a shortage of expensive medication
Between the shortage of medicine and the high price of drugs, patients in Egypt suffer from increasing problems, especially those with chronic diseases who are constantly searching for medicine. Although drug prices have doubled in just three years, complaints about…
Nile stock exchange: The stumbling dreams of small enterprises
SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) have always been the focus of the Egyptian state. Suspiciously, the fact that 98 per cent of these projects operate in the informal economy means that there are lost taxes for the government on the…
Cairo sinks: Deaths, traffic paralysis and government excuses
In less than an hour and a half of rain, the streets of Cairo appeared to sink. The rain has paralysed public life, killing at least five people, including a child. That failure prompted harsh public criticism against authorities, and…
Police continue broadcasting forced confessions
On Tuesday Egyptian police arrested 22 people on charges of agitating public opinion in front of the court in Menofia province on Sunday during the case of the murder of Mahmoud el-Banna. Mahmoud el-Banna is a teenager who was killed…
Egypt launches a secret satellite for military purposes
Egypt intends to launch a new satellite secretly, without publicising it or advertising it as propaganda as the regime usually does. Official sources say that the secrecy surrounding the launch of the new satellite is because it will be used…
Unprecedented expansion of death sentences under al-Sisi
The Egyptian judiciary has issued an unprecedented number of death sentences since the military coup in July 2013. During the last six years, more than 2,000 initial execution sentences were issued and no less than 187 people have been executed….
In violation of the law, Egypt authorities delay authorising news websites
The Supreme Council for Media Regulation (SCMR) has announced that it hasn’t yet made a decision concerning news websites that have demanded authorisation according to the journalism and media code signed by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in September 2019. The SCMR…
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