Sisi barters with Europe: Human rights violations in exchange for preventing irregular migration
Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi found his way to the summit of Egypt and the member states of Visegrad (Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia), which was held during the past two days in the Hungarian capital Budapest, where he took…
British court fines news outlet for pro-Egypt and UAE propaganda
A British court has decided to compensate English journalist Jane Cahane with £81,000 for the damages she suffered as a result of being deceived by the chairman of the board of directors of TIJ, which she served as editor-in-chief of…
Egyptian campaign against death penalty says Egypt executed 176 over past year
The advocacy campaign, Stop the Death Penalty in Egypt, recorded 534 death sentences issued by Egypt’s courts in the period between August 2020 and August 2021. The campaign’s first annual report, “The Irreversible: The death penalty crisis in Egypt,” showed…
EIPR: Egyptians lacked social protection against COVID-19 crisis
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights issued a report over the Egyptian social protection policies during the COVID-19 pandemic. The report tracked the social protection policies in Egypt regarding wages, pensions, insurance, and health care as well as the financial…
Egyptian authorities harass Safwan Thabet’s family to pressure the detained businessman
Last Sunday, The Egyptian Public Prosecution put Mrs. Bahira El-Shawy, the wife of the imprisoned businessman Safawa Thabet and mother of his imprisoned son Seif Eldin, onto a new case accusing her of spreading false news to disturb public opinion…
Inflation rate in Egypt jumps to 8%
The annual general inflation rate in Egypt continued its upward trajectory in September, recording its highest levels in at least a year, as it jumped to eight per cent compared to September 2020, while the inflation rate rose on a…
Egypt isolated from the world under the pretext of ‘security concerns’
Egyptian cultural and literary circles expressed their astonishment at the 73-year-old African writer Abdel Razzaq Garnah winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, as most of those belonging to these circles had not read Karnah before, and many of them had…
Record executions in Egypt after unfair trials
On the 19th anniversary of World Day against the Death Penalty, the Egyptian Network for Human Rights issued a statement to say that whilst most countries across the world have abolished or frozen the death penalty, Egypt has gone the…
Egypt government prepares to remove dozens of historical buildings
A governmental committee has marked tens of tombs, surrounding the mosques of Al-Sayyida Nafisa and Al-Imam Al-Sahfi’I, with red and black signs in preparation for demolition. The committee consists of representatives from the Armed Forces, the Egyptian Survey Authority, and…
Hamas leaders in Cairo: Sisi sought regional power through Palestine
The Hamas leadership at home and abroad met in Cairo after an official invitation from Egypt, at the first meeting of its political office after the completion of the movement’s internal elections in early August, at a time when Egypt…
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