Poverty rate in Egypt 32.5% according to official figures
July 31, 2019 The Egyptian Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) revealed in a press conference on Monday that the poverty rate in Egypt is 32.5 per cent compared to 27.8 per cent in July 2016. According to…
Ziad al-Alimi’s mother demands her son be treated in hospital
July 31, 2019 Journalist Ikram Yousef, the mother of former MP Ziad al-Alimi who is currently being hold in connection with the so-called Hope Alliance case, demanded Monday that her son be transferred to hospital because of his deteriorating health….
AFTE calls on Egypt authorities to stop blocking digital media
July 31, 2019 The Freedom of Thought and Expression Foundation (AFTE), a law firm based in Cairo, released its quarterly report on the state of freedom of expression in Egypt on Monday, in which it reported numerous violations including against…
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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