Human rights organisations denounce state security’s sentences against El-Elaimy, Fouad and Mo’nes
Eight human rights organisations denounced the sentence issued by the exceptional State Security Court for Emergency against the Egyptian politician Ziad El-Elaimy of five years imprisonment and against the journalists Hesham Fouad and Hossam Mo’nes of three years imprisonment in…
Human rights organisations describe death of Egyptian political detainee as ‘intentional murder’
Shehab Centre and the Egyptian Network for Human Rights as well as We Record revealed that a political detainee died in Gamsa Prison in an intentional murder case. The detainee, Mohamed Salem Salmi, 55, a lawyer from Ismailia, went into…
10 Eritrean asylum seekers in Egypt on hunger strike protesting forced deportation
Ten Eritrean asylum seekers being detained in Al-Kasir Police Station on the Red Sea are on hunger strike, protesting the Egyptian authorities’ refusal to register their asylum applications in the UN Refugee Agency. The refusal raised the refugees’ concern after…
Aswan floods shine light on dire infrastructure in Egypt
Aswan Governorate in southern Egypt was hit last week by a wave of bad weather that left roughly 503 infected with scorpion and snake bites. The pillars of the tourist province were paralysed, as electricity and water were cut off…
Egyptian airports have become a trap for critics and opponents
Over the past few years, the phenomenon of security authorities stopping people at Egypt’s airports, especially Cairo International Airport, has grown in popularity. Some are Egyptians travelling abroad or returning, especially those affiliated with the opposition or human rights defenders,…
Sisi’s regime attacks popular footballer for his politics
Media figures close to the regime of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, led by broadcaster Amr Adib, launched an attack campaign targeting the former Egyptian national team and Al-Ahly club player Mohamed Abu Trika, one of the most prominent and popular…
Egypt is fighting climate change with rhetoric, not action
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s speech at the United Nations Climate Change Summit (COP26) aroused much praise, especially from his media outlets, as it carried many good pledges, including increasing the contribution of renewable energy sources in Egypt’s energy mix to…
A nation at risk as Egypt suffers from a shortage of tutors
It took the government seven years to be convinced that there is a severe shortage of teachers in public schools – amounting to 300,000 teachers – and that this shortage must be filled as soon as possible so that the…
Sisi’s regime is abusing taxes and fees
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s regime is seeking to increase the revenues of the public budget, which suffers from a chronic deficit, due to the increasing cost of debt service, which leads him to borrow hundreds of billions of pounds annually…
Detained lawyer Ahmed Helmy’s case exposes Egypt’s abusive judiciary
Over a decade ago, the Egyptian regime under Mubarak used to circumvent the judiciary in its war against the political opposition. The regime used the emergency law which authorised the minister of interior to issue arrest warrants for two months…
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