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…
Egyptians use Twitter to demand their president leave
The Arabic hashtag, Sisi leave#ارحل_يا_سيسي was trending on Twitter on Thursday, in response to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s statements about his willingness to hold “annual presidential elections,” and that he is ready to leave the presidency if the Egyptians…
Policeman and parliamentarian’s son released after killing a child
Marwa Qinawy, the mother of Youssef Al-Arabi, a victim of indiscriminate shooting, revealed that those convicted of killing her son, Taher Abu Talib, a policeman, and Khaled Abdel Tawab, the son of a parliamentarian, had been granted conditional release from…
The World Youth Forum: Al-Sisi’s version of woke washing
Between 10 and 13 January, the fourth conviction of the World Youth Forum was held in Sharm al-Sheikh of Egypt with heavy media coverage by Egypt’s local media that celebrated the event, which is sponsored by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The…
How accused policemen evades accountability in Egypt?
After two and a half years of investigations, the Attorney General of Helwan College Prosecutions referred the former head of investigations at the Helwan Police Department, Colonel Hani Abu Alam (imprisoned), and his former assistant police secretary Hani Heikal (fugitive),…
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