Month: January 2023

NYT: Inflation Is So High in Egypt That Eggs Are a Luxury

The New York Times has issued a report highlighting Egypt’s deteriorating economic and living conditions and the weak purchasing power of large segments of citizens. “Around the time Egypt’s currency hit an all-time low, an article this month on the…

Sudanese authorities intend to deport nine Egyptian dissidents

The Egyptian Network for Human Rights has said that the Sudanese authorities intend to deport nine Egyptian dissidents to their country. Four were sentenced to life imprisonment, and five were sentenced to two years in Egypt, according to the human…

The Economist: To save Egypt’s economy, get the army out of it

On Thursday, The Economist published a report on the economic situation in Egypt and pointed to the deep crisis in the country. “To the list of spectacular ruins across Egypt, you can now add its economy. The Egyptian pound lost…

El-Nadeem documents 3,949 human rights violations in Egypt in 2022

On Wednesday, the El-Nadeem Center against Violence and Torture said it had documented 3,949 human rights violations in Egypt in 2022. The violations included 49 cases of killing, 42 cases of torture, 339 cases of illegal punishment, 308 cases of…

Amnesty International recalls human rights violations of Sisi and Modi

On Thursday, Amnesty International issued a statement recalling the human rights violations of the regimes of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in conjunction with El-Sisi’s visit to India. “[National] celebrations should not distract us…

Limiting the right to challenge governmental contracts opens new doors for corruption

After about eight years in the corridors of the Egyptian courts, the Constitutional Court upheld the law regulating governmental contracts that limits the right to challenge the validity of government contracts to the parties of the agreement themselves, preventing citizens…

Unemployment at 7.4%: The forgotten socioeconomic crisis in Egypt

The number of new jobs created in Egypt decreased by 22.6% in the third quarter of 2022 compared to the second quarter of the same year. At the same time, there is a high unemployment rate during the same period,…

The Police Authority Law amended: The art of purging and politicizing the Egyptian police

On January 15, the House of Representatives approved the amendments to the Police Authority Law, No. 109 of 1971, which the government finally submitted, and as usual, without parliament making any amendments to the government proposal. The new amendment in…

Sentencing September protesters: Egypt’s regime slays protesters with judicial sword

A week ago, an Egyptian court sentenced 39 defendants to life imprisonment and 44 others, including 23 children, to long-term imprisonment over the September 2019 protests against Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The city of resistance On September 20, 2019, protests erupted…

UN human rights experts call on Egypt to provide adequate health care to Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh

On Thursday, United Nations human rights experts called on the Egyptian authorities to provide adequate and appropriate health care to imprisoned former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh. Aboul Fotouh was arrested in February 2018 and sentenced by a court…