‘Inside prison out of law’: ANHRI’s campaign to release political prisoners
The Arab Network for Human Rights Information announced that it launched a campaign, ‘Inside prisons out of law,” to release political prisoners who have finished the maximum pretrial detention period according to the law and the constitution. The campaign highlighted…
ANHRI: Lawyers and human rights defenders intimidated in Egypt
The Arab Network for Human Rights Information said that although lawful texts that protect lawyers, and human rights defenders in particular, are abundant in the Egyptian constitution, Egyptian law, and the international treaties, lawyers and human rights defenders in Egypt…
Ahmed Nahhas: The 38th Egypt political detainee to die in 2021
We Record, the Egyptian Network for Human Rights, and the Shehab Centre unveiled that the political detainee, Ahmed Nahhas, 63, died, on Thursday, in Tora Prison after catching coronavirus. ENHR added that Nahhas’ family found out about his death on…
Egypt sells $3 billion bills amid lower investor turnout
Egypt’s ministry of finance said that it sold USD bills of three categories at $3 billion, and reduced the interest on all categories, in its first bill rollout of the new fiscal year and the second in 2021. The ministry…
DAWN: Egyptian ex-attorney general participated in repressing peaceful activism
On Sunday, Democracy for the Arab World Now said that the Egyptian ex-attorney general, Nabil Ahmed Tawfik Sadek, is responsible for the illegal pursuit of thousands of Egyptians for peaceful activities protected by international law. DAWN added, in a report,…
Despite promises of improving detention conditions political detainee dies in Wadi Al-Natron
On Thursday, We Record, the Egyptian Network for Human Rights, and Shehab Centre revealed the death of political detainee Mahmoud Abdel Latif in Wadi Al-Natron 440 Prison after four years in detention. Abdel Latif, 47, who is married and has…
2,500 workers from Universal Group strike protesting non-disbursement of wages
Some 2,500 workers from Universal Group, a manufacturer of home appliances, in the industrial area of the 6th of October City, have gone on strike, protesting against the irregular disbursement of wages, cutting 50 per cent of their wages, non-disbursement…
Banque Misr: The Egyptian governmental bank takes the greatest loan in its history
Banque Misr, the second largest governmental bank in Egypt, is preparing to acquire the biggest loan in its history, $700 million, in order to pay off a previous $550 million loan taken by the bank in December 2018. The initial…
Salama Abdel Aziz: The 35th political detainee to die in Egypt in 2021
We Record and the Egyptian Network for Human Rights said the political detainee, Salama Abel Aziz, from Alweddi village in Al-Saff, Giza, died, on Saturday, in Tora Prison due to bad detention conditions that caused his health to deteriorate after…
Sisi: Egypt among the driest in the world and its people live below the water poverty line
Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said that Egypt is considered among the driest countries all over the world, and its people are living below the water poverty line. Sisi added, in his recorded speech before the UN 76th General Assembly, that the…
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