Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
by the Revolutionary Socialists, 21 September 2019
Whatever the outcome of the demonstrations we are witnessing, and whether or not you stand with them or against them, it is certain that the grip of terror on the hearts of people across Egypt is slackening and that the wall of fear built by (...)
Trade unionists, MPs, writers and academics have launched a protest statement calling for the immediate release of Egyptian labour lawyer Haitham Mohamedain who was seized by the security forces from his home on 18 May. Haitham appeared in court the following day and was remanded in custody for (...)
Yet another bloody holiday for the Copts of Egypt. Once again churches are bombed and dozens of churchgoers are killed on a religious holiday. Once again the corpses of Copts lie with the debris of their icons and what is left of their churches. Once again, al-Sisi’s regime, its military rule (...)
This week marks the beginning of the fourth year of the 3 July coup. The events of the last three years have shown, beyond any doubt, that this bloody coup had been planned and prepared by the army’s leadership and big businessmen months before it unfolded, and that the political and popular (...)
RESISTANCE TO THE REGIME OF COUNTER-REVOLUTION: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
The events of the last six weeks show the complex and contradictory nature of the current period in the long confrontation with the regime of the counter-revolution. The class and political characters of the regime (...)
Egypt’s military regime has carried out a series of raids ahead of planned demonstrations on April 25 to transfer control of two islands in the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia. At least 100 people have been detained, including Haitham Mohamedain, a leading labor lawyer and activist with the (...)
EGYPTIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS expressed their feelings about the fifth anniversary of the Tahrir Square democratic revolution that toppled the Hosni Mubarak regime — now replaced by the even more brutal military-presidentialist dictatorship of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. .
Mahienour al-Masry, a member (...)
Al-Qassam are not terrorists: open the Rafah crossing and lift the siege of Gaza!
Statement by the Revolutionary Socialists
The decision by the Urgent Matters Court yesterday [31 January] to designate the Ezz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, as a “terrorist organisation” (...)
The regime trembles every time the anniversary of its great defeat in January 2011 approaches, when the Egyptian masses overthrew Mubarak and gave the thugs of the Interior Ministry a lesson they will never forget. No matter how often they try to deceive us and deceive the masses with their (...)
The ruling by the Cairo Criminal Court today [Saturday 29 November] in the re-trial of Mubarak, his sons Gamal and Ala’a and fugitive businessman Hussein Salem, former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly and six of his key aides was awaited, in the midst of contrasting expectations about the (...)
“WE DO NOT like prisons, but they do not scare us,” says Mahienour al-Masry, Egyptian lawyer and human rights activist who was serving a three year prison sentence for violating anti-protest laws before her recent release.
In the latest of numerous campaigns seeking justice within the Egyptian (...)
Egyptian Leftist Activist Mahinour El-Masry Freed after Spending 125 Days in Jail After spending 125 days in prison, leftist Egyptian activist Mahinour El-Masry was ordered to be released from prison today.
An Alexandria court suspended El-Masry’s six-month sentence, reports Mada Masr. In (...)
“The system of fear is back,” whispers an Egyptian political activist. “It is showing its teeth, saying ‘I’m baaack.’” The protest veteran speaks sotto voce even though he is sitting in his living room. And that, he points out, is the biggest change since the heady days of 2011, after the fall of (...)
Part one of a two-part article by Sameh Naguib.
There can be no doubt that we are witnessing a clear victory for the counter-revolution and confirmation of the end of the first wave of the Egyptian revolution. This does not mean, however, that the counter-revolution’s victory is final, nor (...)
FREEDOM FOR THE OPPRESSED … FREEDOM FOR THE SHURA COUNCIL DETAINEES
Statement by the Revolutionary Socialists
Yesterday [11June] the judiciary of the counter-revolution issued sentences of 15 years in jail, a 100,000 LE fine and five years under police supervision against 25 political (...)
Coalition of youth groups claims ‘Sisi idol’ fell apart in election
On Wednesday, a coalition of seven youth-based opposition groups issued a joint statement during a press conference, denouncing Tuesday night’s last-minute extension of Egypt’s presidential elections amid lower-than-expected (...)
The day before voting began in the presidential election, the road from Cairo to Mansoura was littered with signs for presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Almost every kiosk along the Nile boasted at least one close-lipped, smiling picture of the former defense minister in civilian (...)
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In May Egyptian revolutionary, climate activist and lawyer Mahienour El-Massry was unjustly jailed. Just before she was imprisoned she spoke to Mika Minio about her amazing work.
July 2014
Red Pepper
In January Mahienour El-Massry, an Egyptian revolutionary from Alexandria, was sentenced in (...)
The entire state apparatus - army, police, government, judiciary and media - are mobilizing behind Al-Sisi in preparation for his coronation, on June 5, as president. They want the anniversary of sad memory of the naksa (defeat) this year – what a coincidence – to be the date to announce the (...)
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