Month: December 2021

A comical response from the Egyptian Ministry of Interior to complaints of violations of prisoners’ rights

A few days ago, a video circulated Egypt’s social media showing Dr. Mahmoud Ezzat (77 years old), the former acting guide of the Muslim Brotherhood who was arrested in August 2020, complaining to his court of the conditions of his…

The Egyptian government collects over EGP 2 billion in real estate taxes in less than 5 months

The Egyptian Real Estate Tax Authority collected more than 2 billion Egyptian pounds in less than five months, from the beginning of the fiscal year in July until the beginning of December. A source in the Ministry of Finance said…

Al-Sisi admits the high electricity prices exceeds the cost of the service

Monday, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said the high electricity prices are not for the sake of high prices, but rather because there are other things related to the cost of the service, such as the quality of money collection and the…

Egypt’s Sisi leads a luxurious life despite austerity measures

A few days ago, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi issued a sudden decision to stop granting food subsidies cards to newly married couples, declaring that the subsidy has been the reason for the state’s decades-long delay toward development. Unfortunately, this decision…

ANHRI: Egypt witnessed 198 social and political protests in 2021

The Arab Network for Human Rights Information issued a report on labor and social protests in Egypt during the first half of December, which documented 13 protests, including 9 social protests and 4 labor protests. The protests varied and included…

Human Rights Watch criticizes the Egyptian regime over jailing businessman Safwan Thabit and his son

Safwan Thabet and his son, Seif, have been detained for months, Human Rights Watch said, after they refused to hand over their shares in their company, Juhayna, to a state-owned trading company. The rights organization also demanded the authorities to…

Land and real estate expropriations near the Egyptian pyramids provokes popular outrage

41 residents of the Nazlat al-Samman area in Giza filed a lawsuit before the State Council regarding a decision by the Prime Minister to expropriate their land and real estate. The lawsuit, against the Prime Minister, the Minister of Housing,…

Families of Egyptian political detainees in Gamsa complains intransigence

The Egyptian Network for Human Rights said that it had received many complaints from the families of political detainees in Gamasa General Prison, a high-security prison, due to the intransigence of the prison administration with them. The organization issued a…

Egypt’s minister of finance: Egyptian consumers have enough money to pay taxes

In televised statements, on Saturday, Egyptian Finance Minister Mohamed Maait justified the government’s decision to impose more taxes and fees on some goods and services, saying that consumers have enough money to pay. Maait added that the new taxes will…

Medical negligence in Egyptian prisons kills 59 detainees during 2021

This December witnessed the death of 5 political detainees inside places of detention, due to medical negligence, bringing the number of victims in the prisons of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regime during 2021 to 59. This comes at a time…