International demands to release journalist Solafa Magdy after assault and harassment in prison
Amnesty International has demanded Egypt release journalist Solafa Magdy. The organisation said that officials in Egypt’s prisons subject political detainees to torture and bad, inhuman, cruel detention conditions, and deny them health care as punishment for opposing the regime. This…
Egypt declines 11 points in the Corruption Perceptions Index
Egypt has declined 11 points in the Corruption Perceptions Index, published annually by Transparency International, so that it now ranks 117 out of 180 states in 2020. The Berlin-based Transparency International ranks states on a measure of 100 points, with…
Amnesty International: Dozens of deaths in Egypt’s prisons due to medical negligence
Amnesty international has issued a report entitled, “Die or burn: The negligence and denial of health care in Egypt’s prisons,” to shed light on the suffering of prisoners in Egypt and the bad conditions they are kept in. Amnesty said…
After Rafah and Sheikh Zuweid 4,000 families in Arish threatened with forced displacement
“We are not terrorists … we are with the state.” With those words, the people of the port area of Al-Arish in North Sinai appealed to Egyptian regime officials to stop the demolition of their homes and their forcible displacement….
Despite loans and donations there is a crisis in funding the COVID-19 vaccination in Egypt
Despite more than $16 billion worth of loans to confront the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and enforced deductions from salaries and pensions, the Egyptian government has decided that COVID-19 vaccines will not be given to citizens for free. The…
In Egypt, detainees go on hunger strike to save their families
The situation in Egypt is completely different from what is happening in the rest of the world. Instead of the solidarity of free men outside prison, solidarity has arisen in Egypt from those who are languishing in detention with those…
Biden entered the White House on the back of a tank and ignited a wave of ridicule within Sisi’s media
Egyptian media loyal to the regime of General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi focused on the US National Guard’s deployment in the streets of Washington DC, to secure constitutional and democratic processes during the inauguration of US President-elect Joe Biden. The Egyptian…
Once again, Sisi excludes political detainees from presidential pardon
Political and media security sources revealed that General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi excluded detainees and prisoners in cases of a political nature from the expected political amnesty on the occasion of January 25. On the other hand, human rights sources revealed…
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