Unrepaired street lights kill Egyptians in heavy rains
With the rains in the winter season, every year in Egypt, citizens and animals fall in the streets due to electric shocks from street lights and exposed electrical wires. Death by electric shock has become a phenomenon associated with rain…
In Egypt, authorities are the main aggressor against women
The Egyptian authorities and the Abdel Fattah al-Sisi regime have a record of repression and abuse against Egyptian women at all levels, and the regime does not prevent the brutal violations that testimonies reveal of horrific abuses of women. The…
Why didn’t Cairo support the condemnation of Iran at the UN?
Days ago, the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution calling on Iran to respect all its citizens’ human rights by 79 votes to 32, while 64 countries abstained. The United Nations resolution condemned the continued implementation of the death…
Opposition MP Haitham Hariri loses his seat in the parliamentary elections
Haitham Hariri – the most prominent representative of the limited opposition – lost his seat in the third district (Muharram Bey) in Alexandria Governorate (north of Cairo). Indicators of unofficial results in the run-off round of the second phase of…
EIPR demands an investigative judge for its imprisoned employees
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights submitted an official complaint to the attorney general’s office detailing incidents of abuse against its executive director, Jasser Abdel-Razek, requesting that an investigative judge be appointed in the case. The initiative held the public…
Biden’s secretary of state condemns the arrest of human rights defenders in Egypt
US President-elect Joe Biden caused the Egyptian regime widespread anger after he assigned veteran diplomat Anthony Blinken as secretary of state in his new administration, because of the latter’s position on human rights violations in Egypt. Blinken’s tweet about Egypt…
Masked robbery: Egypt authorities freeze funds of 285 opposition figures
On Tuesday, the Cairo Court of Urgent Matters decided to seize the funds of 285 opponents accused of joining the Brotherhood, the largest opposition group in the country, and three entities affiliated with it, in response to a request from…
HRW: Egypt’s judiciary is complicit in suppressing dissidents
Human Rights Watch has said that Egyptian judges and prosecutors are complicit with the authorities in cracking down on activists through revolving detention. The organisation stated, in a report, that the Egyptian authorities ignore the orders to release detainees and…
Director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights held in solitary confinement
Hossam Bahgat, founder and chairman of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, said on Monday that the authorities had detained its executive director, Jasser Abdel Razek, and held him incommunicado and in inhumane conditions for three days after his arrest…
After Biden victory, al-Sisi hears different messages from the world
World leaders have sent various new messages over the past two weeks to General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi; these new, different messages coincided with the announcement of the victory of US President-elect Joe Biden. Al-Sisi would not have heard messages like…
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