Egypt ranks seventh in the Arms Sale Risk Index
Egypt ranked seventh out of the 21 countries that topped the 2021 Arms Sale Risk Index, issued by the Cato Institute. The index measures factors associated with negative outcomes of arms sales, such as dispersal, diversion, and abuse by recipients….
Media trade unionist: ‘A sovereign body demanded Maspero protesters raise Sisi’s posters’
The head of the Trade Union Committee for Employees in the Economic Sector in the National Media Authority, Khaled Al-Sobki, said that a sovereign body asked him to stop the demonstration that has been going on for three weeks in…
Egypt: Students increase despite a tutor shortage
The number of students at the pre-university level in the 2020/2021 school year increased by about one million male and female students, compared to the academic year 2019/2020, while the number of teachers decreased in the same period by about…
Fitch: Egyptian bank ratings may face pressure due to decline of foreign assets
Fitch Ratings issued a report in which it indicated that the rating of Egyptian banks may face pressure if the decline in foreign assets continues. The agency added that net foreign liabilities in the Egyptian banking sector amounted to $7…
Maspero media workers protest financial grievances
Hundreds of employees of the National Media Authority demonstrated in the main building of the Radio and Television Union, Maspero, again, in protest of the authority’s statement, which they considered a way to circumvent their financial dues. The employees demanded…
Human Rights Watch criticises Egyptian authorities over treatment of local rights organisations
Human Rights Watch has said that the Arab Network for Human Rights Information, one of Egypt’s leading independent human rights organisations, announced on January 10 that it had decided to stop operating after nearly 18 years, citing a series of…
Italian court demands the government pursue Regeni’s murderers
The Italian news agency, ANSA, has said that an Italian judge called on his country’s government to intervene in the case in which four Egyptian officers in the national security sector are accused of involvement in the disappearance and murder…
UN concerned over deterioration of Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh’s health
UN experts have expressed grave concern about the poor health of the Strong Egypt Party leader and former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, because of his detention conditions. The experts sent a note to the Egyptian authorities regarding his…
Egypt: Human rights organisations denounce imprisonment of Amal Fathy
Eight human rights organisations have denounced the ruling issued by the Egyptian Court of Cassation, upholding the imprisonment of activist Amal Fathy – who has received the Bruno Kreisky Prize for Human Rights – for one year. The organisations also…
Human Rights Watch: Egypt continues systematic repression
Human Rights Watch issued its World Report 2021, in which it said that Egypt’s superficial attempts to create the impression of progress in human rights did not hide the government’s brutal repression of all kinds of dissent in 2021. The…
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