First Turkish delegation to visit Cairo in eight years arrives for talks
An official Turkish delegation has arrived in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on its first official visit in eight years. The visit comes as part of the restoration of diplomatic relations and reconciliation between Sisi’s regime and the Turkish regime. Cairo…
Egypt’s new Rafale deal raises human rights criticism
The Egyptian military has confirmed it ordered 30 Rafale jets from French defence firm Dassault Aviation to shore up “national security.” The new deal has been condemned by rights advocates, including the French wife of a jailed activist. The new…
Baseera: 3 million Egyptians have been infected with coronavirus
The Baseera Centre for Public Opinion Research issued a report in March which said that more than 2.9 million Egyptians could have been infected with coronavirus in 2020. The centre conducted a telephone survey to determine the rates of infection,…
Mother of detainee Hossam Aboul Bukhari dies after being banned from visiting for 4 years
We Record Human Rights platform has reported that the mother of the journalist and Islamic activist detained in Egypt, Hossam Aboul Bukhari, died after four years of being denied a permit to visit him. The platform said on Twitter that…
Corona death rate among Egyptian doctors is 6 times that of USA
Statistics revealed that the death rate among Egyptian doctors due to the coronavirus is at least six times higher than that of America. According to that comparison, Egypt lost 499 doctors due to corona until the end of April, out…
Egypt authorities refuse to hand over bodies of executed defendants
The families of the relatives of some of those executed in the case of storming the Kerdasa Police Station revealed that the security services have so far been reluctant to hand over all the bodies of their relatives. They stated…
The Army Dairy Company: The secret behind the arrest of Safwat Thabet and his son
In 2014, in a meeting in the presence of General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, the chairman of the board of directors of the Juhayna dairy industry Safwan Thabet donated EGP 50 million to Tahya Misr Fund (Long Live Egypt). Observers say…
Anger in Egypt over Emirati declaration about food aid to Egypt
The UAE announced it was sending an aid plane containing 46 tonnes of foodstuffs to Egypt. The Emirates News Agency (WAM) stated that the aid comes within the humanitarian initiatives of the UAE during the holy month of Ramadan. Many…
Egypt’s ambassador in Washington calls to save GERD negotiations
On Friday, the Egyptian ambassador to Washington, Moataz Zahran, called on the United States to intervene to save the stalled Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) negotiations, considering that it is the only one capable of achieving a breakthrough. Zahran’s call…
Imposing Silence: How Egypt faced freedom of expression in 2021
The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) monitored the plan of General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s regime to “impose silence” on Egyptians, with “systematic violations” against freedom of opinion and thought in Egypt during the first quarter of 2021….
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