Month: April 2021

Sisi declares state of emergency in Egypt for fifth year in a row

Republican Decree No. 174 of 2021 declared a state of emergency throughout Egypt for three months, starting from one o’clock in the morning on Sunday, April 25, 2021. The decision, issued by General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, was published in the…

93 political detainees executed during Sisi’s mandate

Former Egyptian detainees say that Ramadan is the only month of the year in which those sentenced to death sleep, assured that their sentence would not be executed the next day. However, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s regime violated this trend and…

Egypt’s media minister leaves office due to inner conflicts between sovereign bodies

Whilst the Egyptians were waiting for the announcement of the resignation of the transport minister after repeated train accidents and dozens of deaths, or the resignation of the health minister after the collapse of the medical system due to corona,…

Egypt ends the school year in April due to the outbreak of COVID-19

The Egyptian Ministry of Education announced, in a statement, that the end of the current school year will be at the end of this April for school students of all school levels. The decision applies from kindergarten to the second…

Authorities arrest mother and sister of detainee after he complains about torture

Egyptian activists announced that the security forces had arrested the mother of the Egyptian political prisoner, Abd Al-Rahman Al-Shuwaikh, and his sister. News of the arrest came about 24 hours after a recorded letter from Al-Shuwaikh’s mother, demanding her son’s…

International human rights organisations demand Biden withhold military aid to Sisi

A joint open letter from 14 leading human rights groups and NGOs demanded Joe Biden’s administration not waive human rights conditions on aid to Egypt. The 14 groups have directed their letter to the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken….

‘It’s sabotage’: Kamel Al-Wazir evades responsibility for deterioration of railways

Lieutenant General Kamel Al-Wazir, Minister of Transport, said that some of the causes of accidents that the railway sector is exposed to are a result of extremist elements inside the sector. They do not want Egypt to enjoy security, safety,…

17 people executed in Egypt over protests against 2013 military coup

The Egyptian authorities carried out the death penalty by hanging 17 opponents of General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s regime in the well-known case in the media of storming the Kerdasa Police Station. Those sentenced to death are Abd Al-Rahim Abd Al-Halim…

Al-Sisi ignores Haftar and turns to western Libya

Despite entrenching itself in the east and drawing red lines supporting retired General Khalifa Haftar, the Egyptian regime recently decided to abandon its approach and enter Libya through the national unity government in the capital, Tripoli (in the west of…

New increase in petrol prices for the first time in 18 months

The Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum announced it was raising the prices of all three types of petrol in the country. It remained the prices of other fuels for the period from April to June of this year. According to the…