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The Egyptian labor movement has a long history of resistance, but the current repressive regime is coming down hard on independent trade union organizing.
When Egypt appears in the international press nowadays, it is commonly about mass incarceration, torture, stifling of dissent and white (...)
The health of Hisham Fouad, a journalist and activist detained for over 2 years is deteriorating after he staged a hunger strike. Fouad, who has been held since 25 June 2019, began a hunger strike on 10 July 2021. Placed in solitary confinement, his health is now in grave danger. The (...)
The 2020 parliamentary elections in Egypt will be completed soon. For weeks now, even in the smallest village, the streets and squares are again wallpapered with the smiling, photoshoped portraits of the same people, as every time, and with the same slogans, as always, all the same, as if (...)
Can we venture to declare that Egypt has arrived at a new and dangerous turning point? Yes and no. For although nothing significant has materialized recently, the specter of a major shift looms. While our capacity to act, to take initiative, or even to think has been completely crippled, (...)
The recent protests demanding the fall of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi were Egypt’s largest since the 2013 military coup. Years of repression have devastated the organized opposition and its networks — but a fresh revolt by Egyptian youth has shown that the regime is anything but secure.
On September (...)
President Sisi is playing cat and mouse with us, shutting down our websites and blocking our social media but we won’t give in.
As the world watches the peaceful revolution that is changing Sudan in awe and amazement, it is clear that in Egypt, Sudan’s neighbour to the north, President Abdel (...)
The Egyptian Parliament is expected to adopt earlier this week a constitutional reform that will eradicate the latest achievements of the 2011 revolution and allow Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to remain in power until. . . 2030.
Throughout the six years that marked President Abdelfatah al-Sisi’s coup (...)
‘Broadcasting false rumours’ criminalised as government imprisons journalists and bloggers to stifle dissent
When officers from Egypt’s National Security Agency came crashing into Amal Fathy and Mohammed Lotfy’s house on a pre-dawn raid in early May, there was little mention of the words “fake (...)
Lawyer Mahienour el-Massry and trade unionist Moatasem Medhat have been acquitted on appeal by a court in Alexandria, the FreeMahienour Facebook page reported on 13 January. The two had been convicted of breaking Egypt’s repressive anti-protest law, and breaching a law on public assembly (...)
Campaigning lawyer Mahienour el-Massry and leading trade unionist Moatasem Medhat have been jailed for two years by an Egyptian court, for breaching a law on public gatherings imposed by the British colonial authorities in 1914. Mahienour and Moatasem have been in jail since their trial in (...)
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L’avocate militante Mahienour el-Massry et le leader syndical Moatasem Medhat ont été emprisonnés pour deux ans par un tribunal égyptien, pour avoir enfreint la loi sur les rassemblements publics imposée par les autorités (...)
Report. The pro-democracy movement and left-wing activists find themselves on the defensive against a judiciary bent on stamping out dissent.
Trials in Egypt on Dec. 30 resulted in over 20 convictions with years in prison and heavy fines against the accused, many of whom were pro-democracy and (...)
Eric Ruder reports on the release of Egyptian human rights lawyer Malek Adly and the struggle to win freedom for other activists facing repression.
MALEK ADLY, a well-known human rights lawyer and activist, emerged from an Egyptian prison in late August after spending three months in solitary (...)
Temperatures in Egypt will reach 45 degrees Celsius by tomorrow!
While many suffer because of this heat wave, Egyptian prisoners -in particular -are feeling the brunt of this hideously hot weather. Former prisoners have talked in detail about the deteriorating conditions of prisons in Egypt (...)
The arrest and detention of labour lawyer Haitham Mohamedain has sparked solidarity from around the world. A statement signed by dozens of prominent trade unionists, academics and campaigners in the UK was launched by Egypt Solidarity Initiative today. Signatories include Ian Hodson, General (...)
Egyptian security forces are carrying out widespread raids and repression in response to growing social and political discontent, which led to the first widespread stirrings of popular protest since the military regime led by Gen. Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi came to power nearly two years ago.
As (...)
STATEMENT BY 17 EGYPTIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS
March 21, 2016
The Perpetrators of Human Rights Abuses Retaliate Against Rights Groups, the Voice of Victims:
In a time when the torture and murder of Egyptians has become a mark of patriotism, defenders of the victims of these crimes are (...)
To: Ms Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy / Vice-President of the Commission
Dear Ms Mogherini,
On 2 February 2016 the body of Giulio Regeni, the Italian doctoral student at Cambridge University who disappeared in Cairo on Jan. 25, was (...)
Five years after the great rebellion called “The Revolution of January 25th 2011” in Egypt, a balance is due. After such a time interval one is better able to judge events. Now it is obvious that this uprising is only the beginning of a long revolutionary road. There is still much more to be (...)
The crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood by general Sisi’s counter-revolutionary regime has generated much debate on the Egyptian left about how to relate to Islamists. Anne Alexander argues that we must recognise the tensions within such organisations and work with their members.
The left in (...)
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