COP26 summit: Egyptian exiles call on UK to rescind invitation to Sisi
In a Letter, the political refugees warned that Egypt’s government could use the environmental summit to ‘whitewash’ its human rights abuses record. A group of Egyptian political exiles wrote to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking him to withdraw an invitation to President Abdel…
Poverty in Egypt: Numbers speak
The controversy surrounding the movie “Feathers”, which was attacked by mouthpieces belonging to the regime of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, claiming that it harmed Egypt’s reputation, due to its exposure to the difficult living conditions of the poor, raises many…
Egypt closed: Egyptian authorities prevent Palestinian artists from visiting Egypt
A few days ago, the Egyptian authorities prevented the Palestinian director, residing in London, Said Zagha, from entering the country in order to attend the activities of the El Gouna Film Festival, and detained him in a room at Cairo…
Two students die in the beginning of the educational year due to congestion in public schools
Since the beginning of the new educational year in October, two Egyptian students died from overcrowding in public schools leading to quarrels over the desks of the classes. The first one was Eid Mohamed Helmy Shehata, a 13-year-old student in…
Popular campaign formed against new insurance and pensions law in Egypt
Syndicate men, journalists and lawyers have issued a statement demanding the new insurance and pensions law (148 of 2019) be amended. The campaign said that the law wastes the savings of most Egyptian workers, who pay for the insurance, and…
Workers of CID Chemicals strike against low profit disbursement
The Centre for Trade Unions and Workers’ Services expressed solidarity with the workers of the Chemical Industries Development Company (CID) after the board of directors decided to freeze the work. The CID board’s decision came after the workers announced a…
Egyptian government bans photography in schools to cover up education crisis
The start of the new school year revealed the government’s failure to prepare for it, as many problems emerged, including the lack of teachers, the overcrowding of classrooms, and the chaos in schools due to the number of parents. Instead…
We Record: Suffering of detainees in Scorpion Prison continues to deteriorate
We Record has said that detention conditions in Scorpion Prison, where the most prominent political detainees are jailed, continues to deteriorate, reaching a situation that represents a serious threat for the mental and physical health of the detainees. It has…
ANHRI: Trying political prisoners at exceptional courts exposes lies behind the National Human Rights Strategy
The Arab Network for Human Rights Information denounced the referral of the YouTube blogger Mohamed Oxygen to trial before the State Security Court for Emergency, which is an exceptional court that lacks the basic standards of fair trials, according to…
Abdel Fattah, Oxygen and Baqer: Activists referred to emergency court over social media blogs
The Supreme State Security Prosecution referred political activists Alaa Abdel Fattah and Mohamed Ibrahim (Oxygen), and human rights lawyer Mohamed Al-Baqer, to the Emergency State Security Court (exceptional court), pending a new case that was reproduced from Case No. 1356….
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