Year: 2021

EFHR: 80 people executed by Egyptian authorities in first half of 2021

The Egyptian Front for Human Rights said that the total number of executions in Egypt’s prisons in the first half of 2021 reached 80 people. The executions included 17 people in the case known in the media as “storming Kerdasa…

Sisi congratulates Israel’s new president on taking office

On Sunday the Egyptian president’s office declared that Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi made a phone call to his Israeli counterpart, Isaac Herzog, to congratulate him on his new post and the Hebrew New Year. The statement said that Herzog expressed gratitude…

Egyptian military kills three Palestinian workers with poison gas

The Ministry of Interior of Hamas in the Gaza Strip said that its Civil Defence teams pulled out the bodies of three Palestinian workers who died in a tunnel crossing the Gaza-Egypt border. The spokesman of Gaza’s Ministry of Interior,…

Egypt’s foreign debt: Government tricks to hide the reality of the situation

The Egyptian government has practiced many games and tricks since the beginning of the corona pandemic, to hide the reality of the situation of external debt, and the huge leap it witnessed during the epidemic period. Egypt’s external debt reached…

Enforced disappearance in Egypt continues

“You disappear from the surface of the earth as if you had never been. No one knows your whereabouts except your jailer, who if he wanted to torture you could, if he wanted to kill you could, and if he…

New attempt to expropriate land belonging to Abbasiya Mental Health Hospital

The Front for Defending Abbasiya Mental Health Hospital revealed the intention of the hospital’s administration and the General Secretariat of Mental Health at the Ministry of Health, to concede a land plot, which was designated for establishing a mental health…

Egyptian authorities isolate political detainee in mortuary due to coronavirus

We Record for human rights monitoring in Egypt said that a political detainee denounced the isolation of another political detainee Madian Hassanein, 61, in the mortuary of Abassia Pulmonology Hospital after he was infected with coronavirus. According to We Record,…

Food prices soar with rising inflation in Egypt

Food products in Egypt have soared after a series of consecutive increases started in 2021, with the price of sugar rising 25 per cent and flour 30 per cent. The popular flour tonne increased to EGP 7,000 in July compared…

EIPR: Foreign debt soars in the absence of transparency and oversight

The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights said, on Tuesday, that foreign loaning rates rose in Egypt in parallel with the International Monetary Fund deal, leading Egypt’s governmental debt to double in the period 2017-2020. EIPR added in its report, “The…

Sisi and his security bodies determine appointments in the judicial authorities

The new judicial appointments issued by the State Council included transferring counselor Samy Darwish from the Supreme Administrative Court to the commission of commissioners in the court. Darwish was a member of the tribunal that ruled that the Egyptian-Saudi Maritime…