ANHRI: Protests rise in Egypt in August
The Arab Network for Human Rights Information announced, on Monday, that it had recorded seven protests during the first half of August, including five social protests and two labour demonstrations. Protests varied between mass complaints, strikes and demonstrations. The most…
Hunger strike in Scorpion Prison continues protesting inhumane detention conditions
The Egyptian Network for Human Rights has said that detainees in Scorpion 1 Prison continued their hunger strike, which began on 6 August, protesting the ever-deteriorating inhumane detention conditions. The prison administration has denied some of the detainees visits for…
ISIS blows up electricity network in North Sinai cutting power supply to main cities
Tribal sources have said that Wilayet Sinai, the local ISIS branch, has blown up several electricity towers in Bir Al-Abd, Sheikh Zuweid, Arish, and Rafah. The explosions targeted the electricity network in North Sinai leaving its cities in darkness due…
WTTC: Egypt loses EGP 1 billion monthly due to lack of UK tourists
The World Travel and Tourism Council has said that Egypt loses about EGP 31 million daily and EGP 1 billion monthly, because of its insertion on the UK red list, which stops British tourism to Egypt. WTTC warned of the…
The Egyptian regime imposes a blackout on reporting violations by preventing foreign journalism
Italian journalist Gaston Zama revealed that the Egyptian authorities refused to give him permission to visit Egypt to prepare a photography report about the Egyptian-Italian researcher, Patrick George Zaki. Zaki is a researcher working for the Egyptian Initiative for Personal…
Tunisia’s democracy crisis: The Egyptian model chasing the Arab Spring
It was not surprising that a coup took place in Tunisia with the contribution of the Egyptian regime which fueled and supported it with all its might. This is the same regime that allied itself with Omar Al-Bashir, the former…
Juhayna Food Industries crippled over detention of Thabit family
Juhayna Food Industries said that it delayed sending its 2020 and 2021Q1 lists to the Egyptian Stock Exchange Market. In an official statement addressed to the stock exchange, the Egyptian milk food industries giant attributed this delay to the arrest…
Human rights advocates demand holding perpetuators of Rab’a massacre accountable
The Shehab Centre for Human Rights demanded that the perpetuators of the Rab’a massacre from the Egyptian police and military and the responsible superior officials be held to account. In a statement on the eighth anniversary of the Rab’a sit-in…
US Senate condemns arresting women in Egypt over political background
Democratic senators proposed a resolution, on Tuesday, to condemn four Middle Eastern states, including Egypt, for the detention of women over their political background. US Senator Bob Menendez, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, headed the resolution along with eight democratic…
Still lost after 8 years: Demands to investigate disappearance of 21 protesters in Rab’a massacre
The Egyptian Network for Human Rights has documented the disappearance of 21 Egyptian citizens in the dispersal of the Rab’a sit-in in August 2013. One of the cases was Said Sayed Ramadan, 55, from Imbaba, Giza, who has been disappeared…
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