Month: January 2021

Delta Fertilisers’ strike: SSSP sentences 8 workers to prison for ‘disrupting production’

The Supreme State Security Prosecution has sentenced eight workers of Delta Fertilisers and Chemical Industries to prison for 15 days pending investigation on the background of the strike that has persisted for more than a month now. “The list of…

Egyptian government admits the crisis in oxygen supplies to hospitals after initial denial

The Minister of Health Hala Zayed has announced the implementation of a digital system to check hourly the level of oxygen consumption and the number of occupied beds in hospitals. Khaled Mujahed, the spokesman of the ministry of health, added…

The workers’ struggles came back to headache the Egyptian government

Workers in Delta Fertilizers and Chemicals Industries have launched a strike in the first days of December, protesting against the government decision to close their factory in Talkha, Dakahlia and transferring it to Suez. The workers say that this decision…

How do the Egyptian authorities curb the expose rapists’ movement?

Media reports and local and international news documented the Egyptian authorities’ tactics in curbing the movements to expose harassers and rapists, through security and media campaigns to defame victims and witnesses who choose to speak out about what happened. These…

Presidential pardon: cautious optimism

Reports in the governmental egyption media mentioned that the council of ministers approved a draft of resolution of presidential pardon. The egyption president has the right to give pardon to prisoners according to rule Num. 155 of the constitution, after…

Incidents in Zifta and Husaineya Hospitals reveal the deterioration of health services in Egypt

Late on Saturday, a video, released by Al-Jazeera Egypt, trended on Facebook Egypt. It was recorded by a smart phone in an intensive care unit showing patients died on their beds with the medical team collapsed and two nurses attempt…

Italy: “We will raise Regeni’s case in all appropriate forums”

Italy said that it intends to continue to raise the matter of the tragic murder of Julio Regeni, the Italian postgraduate student who was tortured to death in Egypt in 2016, in all appropriate forums, including the European Union. The…

Ten workers of Delta Fertilizers arrested after a one-month strike

The Egyptian security forces arrested 10 workers in Delta Fertilizers Industries on the background of a strike of the workers of the company against a claimed decision of liquidation. The ten workers include Mahmoud Sabry, the labor-elected member of the…

The detained researcher Ibrahim Ezz el-Deen inserted in a new case to prevent his release

Ibrahim Ezz el-Deen, a detained researcher from the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms, appeared today in the Supreme State Security Prosecution, which directed new charges to Ibrahim and inserted him in case no. 1018 concerning State Security for the…

The re-cycling of political prisoners “ Tadweer” : the Judiciary in Egypt is injustice.

During the last months, one of the most used vocabulary in the Egyptian political street was The Recycling cases “Tadweer” in Arabic. “Tadweer” in details is the Recycling cases of political prisoners after the judge orders their release. They are…