Year: 2020

Ministry of Health adds COVID-19 to the infectious diseases law

The Ministry of Health has included COVID-19 in the list of infectious diseases stipulated by Law No.137 of 1958. This decision means the inclusion of the vaccine against the coronavirus in the list of free compulsory vaccinations for children in…

El-Nadim Centre: 187 violations and 9 extrajudicial killings in March

El-Nadim Centre for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture have issued a report entitled “oppression in the era of corona.” The report presents a toll of 187 human rights violations in Egypt in March. The centre monitored six…

UN calls for release of detainees in Egypt

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has called on the Egyptian authorities to release detainees, fearing the spread of coronavirus. UNHCR spokesperson Robert Colville said that the number of detainees in Egypt reaches 114,000 calling on the Egyptian…

Egypt: Coronavirus infections exceed 1,000

The total number of cases of coronavirus in Egypt has risen to 1,173, with 78 deaths, while 247 have recovered and been discharged from isolation hospitals. Fears spread in Egypt about the entry into the third stage of the outbreak…

Egypt’s regime employs trolls on Twitter

Twitter has revealed the existence of thousands of accounts that promoted lies and were misleading in their support for the Egyptian regime and its regional allies (Saudi Arabia and the UAE). Twitter announced the suspension and deletion of approximately 9,000…

Even during the pandemic oppression is ongoing in Egypt

Despite the spread of coronavirus (COVID -19) in Egypt, where there are 1,070 confirmed cases and 71 deaths until now, and amid calls to release prisoners in fear of their lives in case the virus breaks out inside prisons, the regime…

Call for Egypt to release detained doctors to help in COVID-19 fight

While the health sector in Egypt and the whole world suffers from a clear deficit in the number of doctors and nurses, Egyptian opponents have revealed that more than 1,000 doctors and workers in the health sector are being held…

Coronavirus in Egypt: Medical neglect and no transparency

The infection numbers of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Egypt have reached 865 and 58 deaths. However, the numbers are still low in comparison with other countries like the US, Italy, China and, Spain, yet there are many questions indicating that the…

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic al-Sisi buys a German submarine

The German government has announced its approval to sell a German submarine from Thyssenkrupp military company to Egypt, along with four warships to Israel. German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, Peter Altmire, informed the Bundestag’s Economic Affairs Committee…

Egypt airlines call on the government to bail them out

The Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation published page on Facebook an application submitted by Egyptian private airlines in which they appeal to the Minister of Aviation and the Council of Ministers to intervene to stop losses resulting from the precautionary…