Month: January 2021

ANHRI: The Egyptian government ignores the provisions of the constitution

The Arab Network for Human Rights Information said that the Egyptian state does not adhere to the provisions of the Egyptian constitution despite it had appointed the committee, who prepared the constitution. “Government itself broke several articles of the constitution…

Hasan Nafaa calls the Egyptian regime to release the political detainees

The Egyptian prominent professor Hassan Nafaa called the ruling regime in Egypt to release the political detainees. “It is time for the regime to treat in a different way with the political detainees,” said Nafaa on Twitter. “Thousands of detainees…

An Israeli project threatens the revenues of Suez Canal in Egypt

General Osama Rabie, chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, said that the Israeli project of Eilat-Ashkelon line for easing oil exporting to Europe will impact the Suez Canal. The Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline is an Israeli project to connect Eilat port on…

Lawyers of Matrouh protests the assault on their colleagues inside a police station

Six lawyers organized a protest before Marsa Matrouh police station after being assaulted by policemen inside the station. “We were 6 lawyers in the station at the midnight when the light was cut off and the warden shouted on us:…

On the anniversary of the January revolution, repression escalates despite the absence of calls to protest

For the first time in 10 years, calls to protest and go to the street in Egypt to commemorate the 25 January 2011 revolution are absent; however, the regime’s repression has escalated. This comes in conjunction with the tightening of…

The Criminal Court inserts Aboul Fotouh onto terror list

The Cairo Criminal Court has inserted 16 people onto a terror list for five years. The list included the well-known Egyptian politician and previous presidency candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, his brother Ahmed Aboul Fotouh, Mahmoud Ezzat, the deputy guide…

Egyptian authorities expand detention of political activist Nermin Hussein

Nermin Hussein, a 38-year-old Egyptian political activist, appeared, on Tuesday, before the Supreme State Security Prosecution, nine days after getting parole on another case. The SSSP accused Hussein of joining an illegal group and ordered her to 15 days in…

Egypt declines by 23 points on Bloomberg Index of confronting COVID-19 pandemic

Egypt has declined 23 points on the Bloomberg Index, which measures the ability of world countries to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic, in the second biggest drop after the regression of Ireland. The index is multifactorial as it measures the…

Six icons of the January Revolution are celebrating its tenth anniversary in prison

Logically, the figures and leaders of a revolution should get important positions and roles in the regime that claims to represent the revolution and its goals. This is not the case in Egypt. Under the authoritarian regime of Abdel Fattah…

UN experts: ‘Egypt’s targeting of human rights defenders must stop’

Mary Lawler, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, has condemned the systematic crackdown against human rights defenders. “I am extremely concerned by the seemingly unrelenting efforts of the Egyptian authorities to silence dissent and shrink…