Mental health epidemic in Egypt: 25% of Egyptian people need psychiatric treatment
The World Mental Health Day comes to shed light on the suffering of millions of Egyptians who suffer from mental illnesses and do not find the exorbitant price of treatment or places in hospitals to receive them. The mental illness…
The Egyptian regime strips detainees of their blankets before winter
The Egyptian authorities launched intense searches of inmates in prisons, especially in Tora’s central prison area. This campaign included stripping the detainees’ belongings and allowing very few blankets and clothes. This campaign came in the wake of the Egyptian authorities…
Egyptian regime carried out 77 executions in 5 years.
On the occasion of the International Day against the Death Penalty, which corresponds to October 10 of each year, Egypt watch monitors the details of the implementation of 77 executions in Egypt within five years. The authorities claim the executed…
Extreme discrimination: The title of the labor market in Egypt
The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics admitted that Egypt’s labor market is dominated by “severe inequality.” This statement coincides with the anniversary of the International Day of Decent Work, which falls on October 7 of each year.This disparity…
Kuwait hands over 3 opponents to Cairo: They called for a protest against Al-Sisi
The Kuwaiti authorities handed over 3 Egyptian dissidents to their Egyptian counterparts, on charges of calling to protest against the regime of General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. Sources told the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas that the relevant authorities arrested 3 Egyptians in…
With a value of EGP 21 billion: 16 governmental bodies suffer heavy losses
16 Egyptian government agencies incurred losses worth EGP 21 billion (about $ 1.4 billion dollars) during the fiscal year 2018/2019. Mamdouh Al-Wali, the Egyptian economist and former head of the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate, said that the Railway Authority came as…
People of displaced villages in Sinai are demanding to return to their homes
Hundreds of Egyptian Sinai residents organized a protest to demand returning to their homes in the villages controlled by the ISIS-affiliated Sinai Wilayet (province) militants. The demonstrators raised Egyptian flags and reached the outskirts of the villages from which they…
UN accuses Egypt of using the courts to silence dissidence
United Nations, human rights experts accused the Egyptian authorities of using the exceptional “terrorism circuit courts” to target human rights defenders, silence dissent, and imprison activists during the new Coronavirus outbreak. In a report on Thursday, UN experts expressed their…
29 sentences to death in Egypt during last September
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) monitored the issuance of death sentences against 29 defendants in 17 cases last September, in addition to 10 defendants in 3 cases whose papers were referred to the Mufti during the same month….
Khaled Ali: 1943 detained since the September 20 protests
On Saturday, Egyptian human rights lawyer Khaled Ali said that the Egyptian authorities arrested 1943 people connected with the September 20 protests. Ali added, in a statement on his Facebook page, that an approximate number of 1943 names were counted…
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