Al-Sisi has built 27 prisons over the past seven years
General Mahmoud Tawfik, the Egyptian minister of interior, issued a decision to construct two new central prisons in Fayoum, raising the number of prisons constructed in Egypt after the military coup in 2013 to 27 prisons, and the total number…
National hospitals in Egypt shut down despite COVID-19 pandemic
The Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics recorded a decrease in the number of national hospitals in 2019 compared with 2018 due to a hospital lockdown because of the lack of doctors. Such a decrease affected thousands of Egyptians who…
Al-Sisi attacks the Clubhouse app
With accusations of employment and treachery, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s regime and its media received the Clubhouse app, which became very popular during the past few days after it attracted a large number of activists. Media professionals close to the Egyptian…
How al-Sisi differentiates between the army and doctors
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s statement regarding medical staff, when he confirmed that they would take their return “from our Lord” and that the state will not be able to give them anything, sparked widespread controversy in Egypt. Many compared the state’s…
Egyptian government destroys people’s houses without indemnity
The Egyptian government has begun removing residential buildings next to the ring road, the highway that goes around Cairo, for road expansions. This step raised outrage among the citizens who live in these areas and will lose their houses. The…
Opposition representatives at the Parallel Egyptian Forum are targeted by the regime
The Parallel Egyptian Forum, a US-based Egyptian initiative, has issued a report confirming that their opposition representatives have become a prime target for the Egyptian regime. Ramy Almasry, the forum founder who lives in the USA, told Egypt Watch that…
Egyptian authors face the guillotine as politics is prohibited
Writers and authors in Egypt are suffering from the guillotine of censorship and obstacles to obtaining a deposit number for books with titles that could be interpreted as being political. Some of them have been convinced that talking about any…
Sinai: Families survive in freezing conditions
Last week, Sinai witnessed very cold weather because a polar storm struck the area leaving thousands of the displaced, who left their houses as a result of the military operations of the Egyptian army against Wilayet Sinai, which is affiliated…
Birth control in the name of religion: al-Sisi’s campaign to stop overpopulation
Hours after Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s statements about the danger of the population increase, Egyptians were bombarded with statements issued by official religious institutions and prominent clerics regarding the issue of birth control. It seemed as if al-Sisi’s statements, during the…
Could al-Sisi’s conditional opposition materialise and why now?
In a rare conversation about the opposition, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi set two conditions for what he called the “correct opposition” in his country, the first of which is that they aim to improve people’s situations. The second is that the…
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