Ahmed Tantawy: ‘We will work to build a strong dissenting national party’
Ahmed Tantawy, the former MP and new president of Al-Karama Party, said that he hopes to turn an individual case of a young dissident politician in the current complicated political scene in Egypt into teamwork for building a strong party…
UN Special Rapporteur Mary Lawlor condemns expanding detention of researcher Ibrahim Ezz el-Deen
Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, condemned expanding the detention of the architect Ibrahim Ezz el-Deen, the researcher for the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedom, by inserting him on a new legal case after releasing him…
GERD negotiations: Egypt in a critical situation after Sudan’s withdrawal
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met, on Wednesday, with Abbas Kamel, the manager of General Intelligence, after he arrived back from Sudan after a brief visit, which was supposed to be with the purpose of persuading Sudan to return to the tripartite…
‘Vaccination for all for free,’ demands EIPR
The Egyptian Health Minister Hala Zayed said in a TV statement on Sunday that COVID-19 vaccines will not be provided for free to all citizens, as those who can afford to pay should pay for the vaccine, while those who…
Despite official reconciliation al-Sisi’s media continues attacks on Qatar
“What is between us and the Qatari regime is martyrs’ blood.” With those words, Ahmed Moussa, the Egyptian broadcaster loyal to General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regime, commented on the Gulf reconciliation agreement with Qatar signed in the Saudi city of…
Reunion: Egyptian families are torn between alienation and arrest
University teacher Ahmed Abdel-Basit, who lives in New Jersey, was celebrating with his daughter Aisha, who lives in Egypt, for her sixth birthday on the internet; he told her that he wished that they would spend her next birthday together,…
Arab reconciliation evokes the recurrent failures of al-Sisi’s foreign policy
The Egyptian foreign ministry announced, on Tuesday, that Egypt had signed the final statement of the 41st Gulf Cooperation Council Summit held in Ola city in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The final statement of the summit included the termination…
Suez Canal revenues are declining and tourism is out of service
The Suez Canal Authority has announced that the volume of the canal’s revenues during the year 2020 amounted to $5.61 billion, down from $5.8 billion in 2019. This statement means that the canal’s management acknowledged a three per cent decline…
How did the National Council for Human Rights violate Aisha al-Shater’s rights?
“Aisha Al-Shater takes her medication and is in a stable condition and recovering. She also takes expensive treatment and an injection worth EGP 5,900 every two weeks.” With these words, Dr. Salah Salam, a member of the National Council for…
GERD negotiations: The absence of Sudan puts the new round off
Egypt and Ethiopia announced the end of the meeting on January 4 for discussing the rules and guiding principles of filling and the annual operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam after the absence of Sudan. The meeting was decided…
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