Solidarity actions in cities across the world are helping the campaign against repression in Egypt reach new audiences. As part of an international series of protests and events in solidarity with Egyptian political prisoners this weekend, activists took to the streets in Montreal, Ottowa, London, Paris and New York. Australian activists from Solidarity magazine collected…
Jong Kim reports from Seoul On 19 June, 18 organisations that represent the Korean movement, including the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), National Union of Mediaworkers and Workers’ Solidarity, organized a protest near Egyptian embassy in Seoul. About 20 people demonstrated against El-Sisi regime’s repression on political prisoners. We had speeches and shouted Korean…
Activists in Korea are mobilising for a protest at the Egyptian embassy this Friday as part of a series of international solidarity actions for political prisoners and against repression, disappearances and executions. We spoke to Jong Kim, one of the protest organisers, about the goals of the demonstration. Who is organising the demonstration? At the…
Activists in London, Ottowa, Montreal and New York are planning protests on 20-21 June as part of international days of action in solidarity with political prisoners in Egypt. Here’s what you can do to get involved on the day and afterwards to build the campaign. Stop repression of protests – Free political prisoners – No…
Prisoners’ rights group Freedom for the Brave has documented 163 cases of forced disappearance in Egypt since the first week of April 2015 and June 7, the campaign said in a statement on its Facebook page. Drawn from reports by the group’s extensive network of contacts with detainees’ families and human rights groups, as well…
Banner drops, street rallies and marches greeted Egyptian president Abdelfattah al-Sisi on the first day of his state visit to Germany on 3 June. Human rights groups, journalists, left-wing and Green MPs, and Egyptian activists living in Germany played a key role in mobilising anger at Sisi’s ‘red-carpet’ treatment from German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The…
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