The National Council for Human Rights calls on the government to release the prisoners
The National Council for Human Rights, a governmental institution, called in an official statement to expand the policy of health release for elderly detainees and those with chronic diseases, as part of the precautionary measures taken by the government to…
Egypt: 170 health care workers infected with Coronavirus
The number of health care workers infected with the new Coronavirus has increased to more than 170 cases according to official statistics from the Ministry of Health, while the Medical Syndicate today announced the death of a psychiatric consultant at…
In Egypt it’s the army who make the decisions, not the ministers
General Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has sparked widespread controversy in the country after he talked about the existence of reserves of medical supplies in Egypt that are not available to the Ministry of Health or the Armed Forces. Al-Sisi’s statements were broadcast…
The COVID-19 battle in Egypt: Lives or business?
“You must bring people back to work immediately… if some people die, it is better than the bankruptcy of the country… if hospitals cannot absorb the numbers of people, they should abandon treatment, and I will not donate. I am…
In the pandemic: Egyptians stranded abroad with the government disabled
In conjunction with the breakout of Coronavirus (COVID -19) across the world, besides the consequent freezing of air traffic, most countries send flights to evacuate its citizens stranded outside the borders. Then once they arrived it provides a quarantine to…
The regime’s coronavirus measures stoke fear in Egypt
While the Egyptian regime’s decisions and harsh measures to confront the new coronavirus continue, observers say that the measures taken by General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi aim mainly to create fear rather than being in the framework of efforts to limit…
Community for Justice: 11,000 violations in Egypt’s prisons during 2019
In its 2019 annual report on prison conditions in Egypt, the Community for International Justice monitored 11,290 violations in 94 detention places. The organisation monitored 819 incidents of overcrowding in places of detention, 331 cases of deprivation of personal necessities,…
EIPR: 49 death sentences and 21 pending in March
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights issued its monthly report on death sentences in March, documenting that the death sentence has been issued against 49 people. It also said that there are 21 pending death sentences awaiting the Grand Mufti’s…
Egypt’s Medical Syndicate calls for equating medical staff with war heroes
Egypt’s Medical Syndicate has called on both the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health to equate medical staff who died of COVID-19 with war heroes. The union said that many doctors have been infected with coronavirus while working. Some…
New bill to obliges citizens to donate to Tahya Misr fund
The head of the Legislative Committee in the Egyptian Parliament, Bahaa el-Din Abu Shoka, has submitted a bill obliging citizens to donate to the Tahya Misr (Long Live Egypt) fund to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. Abu Shoka said that…
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