Egyptian blogger attempts suicide in prison after years of arbitrary detention
Egyptian blogger Mohamed Ibrahim, known as Mohamed Oxygen after the title of his blog, attempted suicide in his cell in Tora 2 Prison before being saved at the last moment. The Arab Network for Human Rights Information condemned the abuse…
Egyptians bear the value of political corruption in electricity bills
The Egyptian Ministry of Electricity announced raising electricity prices for homes during the current month, and fixing them for the rest of the other authorities in the country, until the end of the Corona pandemic or the next fiscal year…
The case 173: A new maneuver by the Egyptian regime to circumvent human rights criticism
Since he took office in 2014, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi waged a merciless crackdown on the Egyptian civil society. Persecution and arrests soared up until leading human rights organizations warned, in a joint statement before the UN Human Rights Council, that…
24 Muslim Brotherhood members sentenced to death in Egypt
Damnhour’s Criminal Court sentenced, on Thursday, 24 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including the secretary of the group’s office in Behera Province. The court indicted 16 defendants, six of them in absentia, accusing them of blowing up a police bus…
Egyptian human rights advocates demand release of 10 Nubians detained in Saudi Arabia
Six human rights organisations demanded the Egyptian authorities intervene immediately to secure the release of 10 Nubian Egyptian citizens detained in Saudi Arabia for over a year. The organisations denounced their detention since July 2020 without trial, especially because a…
Egyptian authorities wage war on independent academics
Weeks ago, security forces arrested the well-known historian and researcher Alia Muslim, upon her arrival at Cairo Airport as she returned from Berlin, where she is completing her post-doctoral research at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Officers from the National…
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