Month: December 2020

Egypt authorities wiretap mobile phones

Many warnings were issued by opponents and activists in Egypt about the danger of mobile phones and talking about political matters or criticism of the government. Everything that citizens say is monitored and recorded according to their assertions. Several human…

Italy turns against Egypt over human rights

A state of tension has come to dominate Egyptian-Italian relations, which threatens to impede the implementation of economic and military cooperation agreements between the two countries. This tension appeared in the escalation of Italian anger against Egypt in cases related…

EIPR’s detainees: Hostages in Egypt for future negotiations with Biden

In April 2017, three months after the outgoing American President, Donald Trump, won the elections, an American military plane took off to Cairo Airport to transport the Egyptian-American political prisoner Aya Hijazi to Andrews Air Base on the outskirts of…

The Renaissance Dam negotiations: The crisis gets complicated

Ethiopia won a new card in the Renaissance Dam negotiations, in light of the Egyptian-Sudanese dispute’s escalation, despite Cairo’s attempts to contain it and to make concessions to Khartoum. With gains and losses, the hypothetical meeting between the foreign and…

46% decrease in Egypt’s support for petroleum products within 3 months

The Egyptian government decreased the support of petroleum products by 46 per cent in the first quarter of the current fiscal year 2020-2021. On Sunday, the Egyptian Minister of Petroleum Tarek el-Molla said that petroleum products’ subsidies fell to EGP…

Detainee in Fayoum Prison dies from medical negligence

Jewar Foundation for Rights and Freedoms announced the death of detainee Hassan Judeh Ali Youssef in Fayoum Prison due to medical negligence. The authorities arrested Hassan, who was working as a teacher at Al-Da`wa School in Beni Suef since the…

Sectarian strife rears its head in Egypt again: Who woke it up?

Egypt is witnessing signs of the resurgence of the crisis of sectarian strife again in Egypt between Muslim and Christian citizens. It is the bomb the ruling regime resort to threatening to detonate it to divert attention from its own…

Amidst the second wave of corona, tragic conditions in fever hospitals

The outbreak of the coronavirus in March in Egypt, in conjunction with the embargo and closure, has demonstrated the country’s need for a lot of attention to the health sector, which includes hospitals, doctors, and nurses. It has become clear…

Has National Security kidnapped Mido Jaber?

A hashtag entitled (Where is the player Mido Jaber?) is circulating on social media in Egypt in an attempt by activists and football fans to solve the mystery of the player’s disappearance under mysterious circumstances. The former player of al-Ahly…

Second wave of COVID-19 hits Egypt amid governmental inaction

It seems that the official announcement of the start of the second wave of the coronavirus epidemic in Egypt has been delayed, as citizens touched the danger about a month ago with the frequent discovery of infections that reached famous…