Tunisia’s democracy crisis: The Egyptian model chasing the Arab Spring
It was not surprising that a coup took place in Tunisia with the contribution of the Egyptian regime which fueled and supported it with all its might. This is the same regime that allied itself with Omar Al-Bashir, the former…
The recent appointments to the State Council continues succession of judiciary
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has issued two republican decisions appointing 411 advisers to the State Council, including more than 70 sons of the council’s advisers, while the rest of the appointments were distributed to the sons of advisers to the…
Egyptian prison conditions push political detainees to suicide
Blogger and political activist Mohamed Ibrahim, known as Mohammed Oxygen, attempted suicide inside his prison cell in Tora 2 high-security prison, after he was subjected to serious violations of his basic rights. This is not the first time that a…
The Olympic Games reveals that Egypt is a country that expels champion athletes
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which are currently being held in Japan, revealed that many Egyptian heroes have emigrated to other countries, have been naturalised and are now representing them in the Olympics, which reflects the failure of the sports…
Egyptians bear the value of political corruption in electricity bills
The Egyptian Ministry of Electricity announced raising electricity prices for homes during the current month, and fixing them for the rest of the other authorities in the country, until the end of the Corona pandemic or the next fiscal year…
The case 173: A new maneuver by the Egyptian regime to circumvent human rights criticism
Since he took office in 2014, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi waged a merciless crackdown on the Egyptian civil society. Persecution and arrests soared up until leading human rights organizations warned, in a joint statement before the UN Human Rights Council, that…
Egyptian authorities wage war on independent academics
Weeks ago, security forces arrested the well-known historian and researcher Alia Muslim, upon her arrival at Cairo Airport as she returned from Berlin, where she is completing her post-doctoral research at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Officers from the National…
Ola Qaradawi on hunger strike after being detained because of her father
Ola Qaradawi, daughter of eminent Islamic scholar Yousuf Al-Qaradawi, has resumed a hunger strike protesting her pretrial detention for over four years. Ola, 60, who suffers health problems, hoped this could lead the Egyptian authorities to stop its crackdown on…
Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh suffers heart attack in detention
Huzeifa Aboul Fotouh, son of Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, the well-known Egyptian politician detained in Tora Prison, said his father had a heart attack yesterday. Aboul Fotouh, who spent three years and five months in pretrial detention, called for help…
The endless state of emergency: Sisi’s tool to create a police state
On Saturday, the state of emergency was extended according to presidential decision no. 290 of 2021. This is the 18th time in a row it has been extended. The state of emergency was declared for the first time in April…
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