After a long international campaign for their release, Yara Sallam and Sanaa Seif walked free from Qanater Prison last week after receiving a presidential pardon. They were arrested after a march against draconian anti-protest laws was attacked and broken up by the police and armed thugs on 21 June 2014 and sentenced to two years…
Egypt Solidarity Initiative joined Stop the Arms Fair protests and activists marching in solidarity with refugees Saturday 12 September. Stop the Arms Fair and Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) held protests outside the ExCel centre in London during the past week. The ExCel centre is yearly host to one of the world’s biggest arms fairs…
Two years after the killing of around 1,000 protesters at Raba’a al-Adawiyya and al-Nahda Squares in Cairo by Egyptian security forces, not a single government or security official has been held responsible, Egyptian and international human rights organisations said today. Human Rights Watch, which labelled the events a “likely crime against humanity” in a report…
Trade union leaders Mark Serwotka and Dave Ward confirmed their backing for the campaign against the visit of Egyptian dictator Abdelfattah el-Sisi to the UK following a packed meeting on 29 July against new anti-trade union laws proposed by David Cameron’s Tory government. Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the civil servants union PCS, and Dave…
Irish teenager, Ibrahim Halawa, was just 17 years old when, during one of his family’s annual holidays to Egypt, he was arrested during protests that took place in Cairo in August 2013. As we approach two years since his arrest, Egypt Solidarity Initiative spoke to his sister, Somaia (27), about Ibrahim’s case. Somaia and Ibrahim…
Twenty MPs across the opposition parties in the UK parliament are calling on David Cameron to withdraw an official invitation to Egyptian president Abdelfattah el-Sisi. Green Party MP Caroline Lucas tabled has tabled an Early Day Motion condemning the visit with the backing of Labour MPs Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, Mark Durkan of the…
Trade unionists, campaigning lawyers, activist groups and student union leaders are backing a statement against the visit of Egyptian president Abdelfattah el-Sisi to the UK. The open letter to David Cameron condemns British support for the military regime in Egypt and British complicity in Sisi’s attacks on human rights, including the regime’s enforcement of the…
Striking London underground workers gave their backing to the campaign against the official visit of Egyptian president Abdelfattah el-Sisi to UK yesterday. Activists from the RMT and TSSA unions on the picketline at London Bridge station added their names to a statement against the visit and urged other trade unionists to get involved in building…
Activists from Egypt Solidarity, Campaign Against Arms Trade and Platform unfurled a giant banner at Downing Street today to mark the launch of a campaign against the official visit of Egyptian president Abdelfattah el-Sisi to the UK. The call for protests against the visit is also backed by the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, Union…
Leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including former MP Nasser Al-Hafy and Abdelfattah Mohamed Ibrahim, head of the organisation’s committee to support the families of political prisoners and martyrs, were killed in “cold blood” by the security forces on 1 July, the Brotherhood said in statement. The men were meeting in an apartment in 6th…
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