Month: March 2020

Egypt’s regime targets university professors to silence them

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regime continues to violate freedom of opinion and expression in Egyptian universities, in particular towards Egyptian faculty staff and academics. Recently, the regime has detained university professors in custody pending political cases, to punish them for…

Egypt’s doctors fight coronavirus and regime aggression

At 2.30pm on Thursday March 19 a force from the National Security Agency in Alexandria, the second largest city in Egypt, stormed the house of a doctor because of a Facebook post. This has been done thousands of times in…

Torture and forced disappearance: How children live in al-Sisi’s prisons

Since the military coup carried out by the Egyptian army against the elected president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013, a brutal and oppressive campaign has been launched across the country. The police and national security affiliated to the Ministry of…

Two coronavirus infections in Tora Prison

The Egyptian Front for Rights and Freedoms has published a report in which it said that it knew from its sources that there were two coronavirus infections in Tora Prison where thousands of political opponents and criminal prisoners are being…

Panic in the affluent Fifth Settlement neighbourhood after 5 coronavirus deaths

A state of panic has taken hold in the Fifth Settlement neighbourhood of the Egyptian capital Cairo because of a series of deaths from coronavirus infection in the area that is locally known as “the neighborhood of the rich.” The…

A map of coronavirus infections in Egypt

The Health Ministry has published a map of the spread of coronavirus infections in Egyptian governorates up until March 29. The map did not provide details of the neighbourhoods or cities within the governorates, but it mentioned the governorates in…

In the fight against coronavirus in Egypt the government favours the rich

In conjunction with the spread of COVID-19 in Egypt, the government has taken many procedures aimed at fighting the virus and mitigating its effects, especially the economic effects. Although those procedures are laudable, a close look reveals that the government…

Coronavirus raises panic in Egypt’s prisons over regime inaction

Egyptian authorities have transferred three detainees suspected of being infected with coronavirus from Giza Central Prison to hospital after they showed clear symptoms of the virus. Egyptian authorities transferred them to the hospital after refusing to do so for days….

Coronavirus: Egypt quarantines villages in 10 governorates

The Egyptian Ministry of Health announced on Saturday evening that it has put villages in 10 governorates under quarantine to fight the novel coronavirus (Covid-19). Observers considered that these measures are a worrying indication of the spread of coronavirus, in…

Egypt’s media fight coronavirus with tea, fesikh and liquorice

While many countries around the world are depending on the media in their countries to raise awareness of how to protect themselves from coronavirus, the Egyptian media has played a completely different role. Satellite channels loyal to the Egyptian regime…