Ethiopia: We will not sign restrictive deal on the Renaissance Dam
Ethiopia’s ambassador to Sudan, Yibeltal Aemero Alemu, said that his country will not sign a deal that restricts Ethiopia’s future use of the Nile, but it could sign a deal that guarantees fair use of the Nile’s water that abolishes…
HRW: Egyptian authorities must stop harassment of civil society
Human Rights Watch has criticised the summoning of five human rights defenders by the Egyptian authorities over the past month on a decade-long criminal investigation, case 173 of 2011, and the arbitrary interrogation of human rights defenders and organisations on…
28th political prisoner in 2021 dies in Gamsa Prison
Mohamed Anwar, 72, died on Monday inside his cell in Gamsa high security prison after eight years of detention. According to the Egyptian Network for Human Rights and Shehab Centre, Anwar has been detained since 2013 on case 2561 of…
EFHR: Human rights violations increase in Sinai along with military escalation
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights reported a rise of human rights violations committed by the different parties of the militant insurgency in North Sinai during the first half of 2021. The report recorded killings and the pursuit of civilians…
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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