Egypt poverty rate hits 32.5%
July 30, 2019 Egypt’s auditing agency has announced that the poverty rate in the country reached 32.5 per cent in the year 2017-2018. The last statistic to be released by the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics…
Has Egypt failed to secure Sinai?
CAIRO — Unknown gunmen killed three citizens in the Sinai Peninsula on July 18, an Egyptian security source was quoted as saying by the German Press Agency (DPA). The anonymous source said that armed groups set up an ambush on the international…
University staff in Egypt receive military training
CAIRO — The Egyptian government is organizing training sessions for second- and third-rank university professors, administrators and employees to train them in leadership and organizational skills at Nasser Higher Military Academy, under the supervision of sociology professors and military generals. A staff…
UN criticises Egypt minister’s threat to kill opponents abroad
July 26, 2019 The United Nations criticised on Wednesday Egyptian Minister of Immigration Nabila Makram’s threat to the Egyptian opposition in the diaspora to “cut off their heads,” in a gesture captured on video and widely circulated on social networking…
HRW calls for NGO law to be returned to parliament
July 26, 2019 Human Rights Watch on Wednesday called on Abdel Fattah al-Sisi not to ratify the NGO law and instead return it to parliament and amend it. In a statement the organisation noted that the law was passed hastily…
Amnesty International condemns overnight probation in Egypt
July 25, 2019 In a report, Amnesty International has called on Egyptian authorities to stop using arbitrary overnight probation against political prisoners. Amnesty said policing was a repressive tactic to intimidate peaceful activists and to silence their voices, after…
Why Is Egypt Attacking Human Rights Groups?
The brave people who work to protect Egyptians from abuse are under aggressive and accelerating attack. The attackers come from the government, its proxies in the media, its security forces, and even elements of the supposedly independent judiciary. The goal…
Over 500 political prisoners in Egypt enter 35th day of hunger strike
25th July 2019 Over 500 political prisoners across several prisons in Egypt have surpassed day 35 of their hunger strike, which they began in June to protest against the death of former President Mohamed Morsi. Morsi died on 17…
Shereen Fahmy: The execution judge who handles political opponents
July 25, 2019 Judge Badry Abdel Fattah, head of the Cairo Court of Appeal and member of the Supreme Judicial Council in Egypt, decided to establish an independent criminal administration to handle all issues of political crisis and terrorism at…
Egypt State Information Service: HRW works with terrorists
July 23, 2019 The Egyptian State Information Service (SIS) has criticised Human Rights Watch over a recent media interview by Sarah Leah Whitson, director of the Middle East and North Africa division of the organisation, on the Egypt Today programme…
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