We’re joining Amnesty International’s campaign this weekend to mark 5 months since the disappearance of Cambridge PhD student Giulio Regeni and the International Day for Victims of Torture on 26 June. Please join the Facebook event here for updates over the weekend. Cambridge 11am, Saturday 25 June, outside the Guildhall, https://www.facebook.com/events/1737837973097262/ Berlin 2pm, Saturday 25…
Students who were forcibly “disappeared” and tortured into false confessions and shipyard workers who protested against attacks on their pay and conditions at work are among the latest civilians to face trial and conviction by Egypt’s military courts. According to Egyptian campaign No Military Trials for Civilians, defendants in case 174/2015, heard at West Cairo…
The annual congress of the University and College Union (UCU), representing over 110,000 academics and other higher and further education professionals across the UK, has voted overwhelmingly in favour of a motion for a campaign to push for truth for murdered Cambridge PhD student Giulio Regeni and justice for all of Egypt’s disappeared. The motion…
This statement signed by members of Australia’s provincial parliaments and Senate, as well as senior academics and leading trade unionists, was handed to the Egyptian consulate in Sydney in protest at the jailing and detention of hundreds of Egyptian activists in the recent crackdown. Add your name to the companion international statement here. Statement of…
The Appeal court in Egypt has overturned the 5 year jail sentences handed down to 47 of the detainees arrested during the April 25 protests, but left them with a collective fine of 4.7 million Egyptian pounds to pay. If they cannot pay the fine they will have to remain in jail for two more…
Another 11 prisoners have joined the hunger strike by detainees arrested and jailed over the April 25 protests in Egypt, according to prisoner solidarity group, Freedom for the Brave. Ten detainees began a hunger strike on 18 May, and were joined by 11 more on 21 May. They are protesting the long jail sentences handed…
Where: Torrington Square (between Birkbeck and SOAS buildings), London WC1E 7JL (closest underground: Russell Square or Goodge Street) Download a poster / leaflet here When: Friday 27 May 1730-1830 Why: Early in February 2016, Giulio Regeni an Italian PhD student at Cambridge, was horrifically murdered while doing field research in Cairo, Egypt. Giulio disappeared on…
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell MP and Irish MPs and members of the Stormont Assembly in Northern Ireland from People before Profit are among the latest high-profile signatories to the solidarity statement with political prisoners in Egypt. TDs (members of the Irish parliament) Brid Smith, RIchard Boyd Barrett and Gino Kenny, and elected members of the…
Dozens of prisoners sentenced to five year jail terms in the latest crackdown of protest in Egypt announced a hunger strike beginning evening 18 May. They include Mohamed Nagy, a human rights researcher and graduate student who is coordinator of research into violations of students’ rights for the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression,…
Egyptian judges handed down long jail terms to over 150 activists seized in the latest crackdown on protests over the transfer of the Tiran and Sanafir Islands to Saudi Arabia. 101 defendants were given five year jail sentences and 100,000 Egyptian pound fines, while in another case 51 defendants received two year jail sentences. Overall,…
Egypt Solidarity 