Maadi’s girl: A new victim of sexual crimes against children
“Do not let anyone touch here (..) because this is your body (..) no one has the right to do that.” This is a song used by many kindergartens in Egypt to educate young people against any sexual abuse attempts…
North Sinai women subjected to abuse by terror groups and governmental forces
Since 2014, North Sinai has been in a constant state of emergency after initiating the “war against terrorism” against the organisation Sinai Province (Wilayat Sinai), which is affiliated with ISIS. Since then, local and international human rights centres documented fatal…
COVID-19 hits the Egyptian parliament: Five deaths amid silence about infections
While the Egyptian Ministry of Health talks about a decrease in the emerging coronavirus infection rate, COVID-19 has hit the newly elected Egyptian parliament. In less than three months, the parliament lost five of its deputies to coronavirus amid the…
18-month prison sentence for activist Sanaa Seif provokes outrage on social media
Cairo’s Criminal Court sentenced, on Wednesday, activist Sanaa Seif to one and half years in prison over charges of spreading false news over the COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt, insulting a public employee and using a social media account to commit…
The imminent rapprochement: Egypt and Turkey need each other
Icebergs between Egypt and Turkey seem to be melting after years of hostility and mutual escalation. Over the past months, both governments started making promising statements regarding restoration of normal relations and positive cooperation between the two countries. Relations between…
Journalist Hisham Abdel Aziz in danger of losing eyesight in prison due to medical neglect
Samira al-Taher, wife of the detained Egyptian journalist Hisham Abdel Aziz, spares no effort to confirm the deterioration of her husband’s health condition inside his prison cell in Tora Prison (south of Cairo) and that he is actually in danger…
Amending the school curricula: Al-Sisi’s religious revolution raises controversy
The controversial issue of renewing religious discourse in Egypt, which Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took upon himself years ago, took a new turn that reached the school curricula, which sparked widespread controversy in Egypt. This step came on the grounds that…
Stockholm Institute: Egypt’s arms imports increased by 136 per cent over 5 years
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said that Egypt’s imports increased by 136 per cent between 2011 and 2015 and 2016-2020. “Egypt, which is involved in disputes with Turkey over hydrocarbon resources in the eastern Mediterranean, has invested heavily in its…
EIPR condemns the continuous renewal of the state of emergency in violation of the constitution
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights condemned, on Sunday, the continuous renewal of the state of emergency since April 2017 in violation of the constitution, which defines its maximum period at three months and limits it to only one renewal….
Due to economic conditions illegal excavations are doubling in Egypt
Despite the spread of coronavirus, excavations are continuing in Egypt through illegal means by people seeking to get rich quickly. Over the past months, the effects of the corona pandemic and its role in the decline in economic conditions and…
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