Ismail Iskandarani: Egyptian researcher, after seven years in military prison
Monday, academic researcher and journalist Ismail Al-Iskandarani was released after seven years in military prison. Ismail was arrested on November 29, 2015. In May 2018, a military court sentenced him to ten years in prison after convicting him of several…
Egypt’s net foreign assets keep declining
The Central Bank of Egypt has said that net foreign assets declined by 109.9 billion pounds in October, continuing a fall that began in September 2021. The deficit in foreign assets thus amounts to 551 billion pounds. Net foreign assets…
Family of political activist Ahmed Doma calls on Sisi to pardon him
On Saturday, the family of political activist Ahmed Doma called on President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to pardon him. “On December 3, Ahmed begins his tenth year in prison, far from us,” his family wrote in a public statement. Doma was…
Egypt’s inflation: Steel prices skyrockets
On Thursday, the head of the Building Materials Division at the Cairo Chamber of Commerce, Ahmed Al-Zaini, said that Ezz Steel, Suez Steel and El-Masryeen Steel raised the price of a ton of steel between 700 and 800 pounds. The…
Months-long fodder crisis has not ended, says poultry producers union
On Monday, the deputy head of the Poultry Producers Union, Tharwat Al-Zeini, revealed that the months-long fodder crisis has not ended, despite the Ministry of Agriculture announced the release of 876,000 tons of fodder from mid-October to last Thursday. Al-Zeini…
Car sales in Egypt will decline by 60% in 2022
Car sales in Egypt decreased by more than 60% compared to last year’s period. This comes from the government’s obstruction of the import of cars, in addition to the market’s suffering from a general state of confusion, according to a…
1,453 abuses against detainees in Egypt in three months
On Wednesday, the Committee for Justice said it documented 1,453 abuses against detainees in Egyptian detention facilities in its third quarterly report, covering the period from July to September. The rights group said that the regime in Egypt is still…
US dollar exchange rate hits 27 pounds in unofficial markets
On Tuesday, the price of the US dollar rose in black market transactions in Egypt to 27 pounds for sale and 26 pounds for purchase due to the refusal of government and private banks to sell it. The official selling…
Egyptian authorities fail to protect refugee women, victims of sexual violence, says Human Rights Watch
On Thursday, Human Rights Watch published a report saying that the Egyptian authorities had failed to protect refugee women victims of sexual violence and to investigate incidents of rape and sexual assault. The human rights group documented 11 incidents of…
Egypt blocks Beirut-based news website
The editorial board of Daraj said that the news website was blocked in Egypt, adding that an interview they conducted with the Secretary-General of Amnesty International, Agnes Callamard, about the Alaa Abdel-Fattah case and a story they published about journalists…
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