Egypt government taxes represent 78.8 per cent of the current budget’s revenues
The ratio of tax revenues that contribute to the supply of budget revenues increased during the first four months of the current fiscal year to be 78 per cent compared with 75 per cent in the last fiscal year of…
Egypt: 203 female political prisoners sexually harassed in 11 months
On International Women’s Day, the We Record platform for human rights published a statement documenting that during their arrest and forced disappearance at least 58 Egyptian women and girls were subjected to violence and abuse by the Ministry of Interior…
Political detainee and three guards left to drown in floods in Aswan prison
The Egyptian Network for Human Rights and Shehab Centre said that an Egyptian detainee as well as three prison guards died in a security forces camp in the Shallal region of Aswan after floods struck the prison. The organisations added…
Judicial dispute confirms parliamentary seats in Egypt are distributed for money
A judicial dispute taking place in the Egyptian courts has confirmed the accusations levelled against the regime of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi for organising formal parliamentary elections that were governed by money, and that favour was given to those who…
Human rights organisations denounce state security’s sentences against El-Elaimy, Fouad and Mo’nes
Eight human rights organisations denounced the sentence issued by the exceptional State Security Court for Emergency against the Egyptian politician Ziad El-Elaimy of five years imprisonment and against the journalists Hesham Fouad and Hossam Mo’nes of three years imprisonment in…
Human rights organisations describe death of Egyptian political detainee as ‘intentional murder’
Shehab Centre and the Egyptian Network for Human Rights as well as We Record revealed that a political detainee died in Gamsa Prison in an intentional murder case. The detainee, Mohamed Salem Salmi, 55, a lawyer from Ismailia, went into…
10 Eritrean asylum seekers in Egypt on hunger strike protesting forced deportation
Ten Eritrean asylum seekers being detained in Al-Kasir Police Station on the Red Sea are on hunger strike, protesting the Egyptian authorities’ refusal to register their asylum applications in the UN Refugee Agency. The refusal raised the refugees’ concern after…
Sisi’s regime is abusing taxes and fees
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s regime is seeking to increase the revenues of the public budget, which suffers from a chronic deficit, due to the increasing cost of debt service, which leads him to borrow hundreds of billions of pounds annually…
Egypt receives new loan from the World Bank to compensate regressive foreign investment
The World Bank has approved a $360 million loan to Egypt to support its economic recovery after the Covid-19 pandemic. The World Bank added in a press statement that the loan aims to promote Egypt’s sustainable and comprehensive development, adding…
US-Egypt strategic dialogue: Human rights and democracy at the bottom of the agenda
Over 8 and 9 November, an Egyptian delegation led by Egypt’s FM, Sameh Shoukry, was in Washington to hold the US-Egypt Strategic Dialogue, which is a meeting held to gather senior US and Egyptian officials. The dialogue was established in…
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