Endless, escalating repression: Human rights in Egypt in 2020
“There is no end to the escalating repression.” This is how Human Rights Watch (HRW) described the human rights situation in Egypt during 2020, as Egyptian authorities intensified their repression of peaceful critics of the government, effectively eliminating any space…
Mohamed Beltagy: One of the January Revolution’s forgotten heroes
On the tenth anniversary of the 25January Revolution, we remember Professor Mohamed Beltagy, one of its icons, who is paying the price of his principles and attitudes, as he concludes his seventh year in the high security Scorpion Prison where…
Al-Sisi: “If you ask me about education, I will ask you about birth-control!”
Abel Fattah al-Sisi said that the Egyptian state works on various fields and sectors in parallel. “We do not neglect anything, including education contrary to what is said,” said al-Sisi in his speech during the opening of Fairuz Fish Farm…
The minister of public business sector: 48 out of 120 state-owned companies are losing
The minister of public business sector Hesham Tawfik said, on Thursday, in his statement before the parliament that there is a full plan to develop the companies of the public business sector (state-owned companies) except for some companies, which are…
MPs of the Egyptian Democratic Party demands the release
The MPs of the Egyptian Social Democratic party, which holds 7 seats in the parliament, presented a letter to Hanafy Gebaly, the speaker of the parliament. The letter included the names of 78 political detainees demanding their release. The seven…
Egypt starts vaccination against COVID19 from Sunday
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced, on Saturday, that vaccination of medical teams and the most vulnerable people against COVID19 by Sinopharm Chinese vaccine will start, on Sunday. He added, in his meeting with the editors-in-chief of a couple of journals during…
USA suspends the immunity of Egypt’s ex-PM accused of torture
The new USA administration of Joe Biden suspended the immunity given to Hazem al-Beblawy, the former Egyptian Prime Minister and the member IMF’s board, who is accused of torturing the American citizen of Egyptian descent Mohamed Soltan. “NEW Biden administration…
Among escalating crises, the Handball World Cup is little more than a fig leaf for al-Sisi
“The USA is now in turmoil, with the storming of congress and many other problems. But Egypt … praise be to God, is now organising the World Handball Championship,” said Ahmed Mousa, the broadcaster close to the regime, who is…
The Administrative Court orders reopening of El Nadeem Clinic for victims of torture
The Administrative Court annulled, on Wednesday, the decision of the governor of Cairo to close El Nadeem Centre for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture. Taher Aboul Nasr, the centre’s lawyer, said that they await the executive regulation…
The insurgency in Sinai: Wilayet Sinai expands towards Suez Canal
Amid a media blackout, 16 military personnel, including four officers, were killed during December and January in the warfare in North Sinai between the Egyptian military and ISIS-affiliated Wilayet Sinai. Such news is absent in statements of the spokesman of…
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