Year: 2021

Egypt rejects Germany’s demand to release human rights activists

Egypt accused the German government of blatant and unjustified interference in the Egyptian internal affairs, and of judging a judicial track without evidence or objective support. Also, Egypt expressed its strong dissatisfaction with the statement issued by the German Foreign…

The crime in Sisi’s Egypt is not being corrupt, it is exposing corruption

Every time audio leaks related to the regime in Egypt are published or broadcast and affect President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi as a person or one of his aides, the matter makes headlines and trends on social media for days. Egyptian…

80% increase in construction materials shakes real estate market

The monthly publication of construction material prices, issued by the Ministry of Housing, Utilities & Urban Communities, revealed an 80 per cent increase in the prices for some materials compared with the prices of the same months last year. The…

100 days after ‘deceptive’ strategy human rights violations and executions continue

In conjunction with Human Rights Day, the Committee for Justice issued a press release which confirmed that the reality on the ground in Egypt 100 days after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi launched the National Human Rights Strategy on September…

Leaked call between two presidential advisors reveals widespread corruption

The recent episode of the Egyptian YouTuber Abdullah Sherif has generated widespread controversy after it broadcast a leak of presidential advisors coordinating bribes and commissions worth millions of pounds. The leak was a call phone between a former major-general, Farouk…

Egyptian and Saudi companies involved in trafficking maids

According to internal investigations conducted in January 2020, Facebook documented how a Saudi recruitment agency, in cooperation with an Egyptian marketing company, used Facebook to facilitate a labour trafficking network that uses women to work as servants in the Middle…

Families of Scorpion Prison detainees express concern over Hamdi Hassan’s death

The association of Scorpion Prison detainees’ families said that Hamdi Hassan, the ex-parliamentarian and Muslim Brotherhood senior official who died in the Scorpion Prison two weeks ago, was not the first victim in this disreputable prison. In a press release…

Hamas lashes out at Egypt with threats of escalation against Israel

Hamas has lashed out at the Egyptian authorities and expressed dissatisfaction with their reluctance to implement what was pledged for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and facilitating the movement of Palestinians through the Rafah border crossing. None of Egypt’s…

Human casualties in Sinai increasing every day due to ISIS attacks

On Saturday, two elements of the Egyptian army’s supportive tribal groups were killed by Wilayat Sinai, which is affiliated with the terrorist group of ISIS in the northeast of Sinai Governorate. According to tribal sources, the group ambushed several tribal…

Sinai for Human Rights: Disclose leaks prove military involvement in systematic violations

Sinai for Human Rights has issued a statement confirming that the leaked French military documents, which revealed the involvement of the Egyptian army in the killing of hundreds of civilians in the Western Desert since 2016, targeted civilian smugglers and…