Hamdy Hassan: Ex-parliamentarian passes away in Scorpion Prison after 8 years of detention
Human rights organisations announced the death of the former parliament member and doctor Hamdy Hassan in detention in the High-Security Scorpion Prison, after eight years of arbitrary detention. On 19 August 2013 the security forces arrested him as he had…
Egypt government taxes represent 78.8 per cent of the current budget’s revenues
The ratio of tax revenues that contribute to the supply of budget revenues increased during the first four months of the current fiscal year to be 78 per cent compared with 75 per cent in the last fiscal year of…
Egypt: 203 female political prisoners sexually harassed in 11 months
On International Women’s Day, the We Record platform for human rights published a statement documenting that during their arrest and forced disappearance at least 58 Egyptian women and girls were subjected to violence and abuse by the Ministry of Interior…
Egypt government continues to violate constitutional provisions on public spending
The Egyptian constitution obligates the government to allocate a percentage of government spending to health that is not less than three per cent of the gross national product, and to allocate a percentage of the state’s general budget for education…
The Egyptian regime bought advanced spyware from French companies
The French investigative website, Disclose, revealed that the regime of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi had purchased advanced spyware from French companies, with the aim of collecting information from communications networks in Egypt, which contributed to the suppression of peaceful opponents….
Pupils suffer food poisoning from the army’s school meals
On 3 August, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi inaugurated the Silo Foods city for food industries, which was established by the National Service Authority of the Armed Forces. Many Egyptians remember that day well, when the president sat among his entourage…
Political detainee and three guards left to drown in floods in Aswan prison
The Egyptian Network for Human Rights and Shehab Centre said that an Egyptian detainee as well as three prison guards died in a security forces camp in the Shallal region of Aswan after floods struck the prison. The organisations added…
Sisi regime continues to prosecute independent publishers on ‘terror’ charges
The Giza Criminal Court has ordered the renewal of the detention of the publisher Yahya Khalaf Allah, founder of Dar Yaqeen for Production and Distribution, for a period of 45 days, accusing him of “joining a group established in violation…
Sisi’s regime has not changed, exceptional courts are still in action
Last Wednesday, the Emergency Supreme State Security Misdemeanor Court sentenced former lawyer and parliamentarian Ziyad El-Alimi to five years in prison, two journalists Hisham Fouad and Hussam Moanis with four years hard labour, and three others to three years in…
Judicial dispute confirms parliamentary seats in Egypt are distributed for money
A judicial dispute taking place in the Egyptian courts has confirmed the accusations levelled against the regime of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi for organising formal parliamentary elections that were governed by money, and that favour was given to those who…
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