Egypt

Public torture in Egypt: Gamal Eid as a model

January 3, 2020 When the director of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), lawyer Gamal Eid, left his home on Sunday, he was surprised when 10 people beat him and threw paint at him in what appeared to…

Gamal Eid holds Egypt Interior Minister responsible for assault

January 2, 2020 Lawyer Gamal Eid, head of the Arab Network for Human Rights Information, has said he holds the Minister of Interior Mahmoud Tawfik responsible for the assault he suffered on Sunday. Gamal Eid was attacked by people in…

Mohamed Ali announces the national consensus document for the post-Sisi era

December 30, 2019 The Egyptian artist and contractor, Mohamed Ali, announced the completing of the “Egyptian Consensus” document. According to what “Ali” had previously announced, it is scheduled to be presented in an electronic referendum to the masses of Egyptians,…

Egypt torture conference ‘kafkaesque horror’, says head of revolutionary council

Head of the Egyptian Revolutionary Council Maha Azzam has written to the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet Jeria urging her to publicly condemn the regional conference on torture which will be held in Cairo at the beginning…

Breaking up the Rabaa sit-in: Between false history and lost memory

August 16, 2019 “An army officer told me literally: ‘If you think you want to prove yourself a man you’ll end up with a bullet and be thrown in the garbage like the many people today whose lives ended with…

Bitter legacy of Rabaa massacre continues to haunt Egyptians

The bloody events of 14 August 2013, when Egyptian security forces killed at least 900 people during the violent dispersal of mass anti-government sit-ins in Rabaa al-Adawiya and al-Nahda squares, has cast a shadow over Egyptian society that lingers to…