In September 2014 we launched a campaign to highlight the courage of hundreds of Egyptian political prisoners on hunger strike in protest at abuse and injustice. 1000 hours of hunger asked activists outside Egypt to take part in a symbolic series of 24 hour solidarity hunger strikes. Over the following two months 44 people in…
Egyptian police attacked a small group of protesters from the Popular Socialist Alliance today as they commemorated the martyrs of the 2011 revolution with a wreath-laying ceremony in Tahrir Square. Shaimaa El Sabbagh, a 32-year old member of the Alliance, was hit in the back by birdshot and later died of her wounds in hospital.…
Film-maker Ken Loach, Irish civil rights activist and journalist Eamonn McCann, the Communication Workers’ Union general secretary Billy Hayes and leading academics from Oxford, Cambridge, London and other UK universities yesterday signed a statement condemning the latest moves by Egypt’s military regime to clamp down on opposition activists. Published in The Guardian’s print edition this…
About 30 people showed up to the #FreeAJStaff protest outside the Egyptian embassy in London yesterday on the one year anniversary of the arrest and incarceration in Cairo of Al-Jazeera English journalists Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy, and Baher Mohamed. International media figures, National Union of Journalist members, and human rights workers were there calling for…
As Al-Jazeera staff prepare to mark a year since the arrest and detention of their colleagues Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed on 29 December, media freedoms in Egypt remain in peril. The AJ three, whose jailing sparked condemnation from colleagues across the international media, are only the best known example of journalists who…
A conference organised by MENA Solidarity, Egypt Solidarity Initiative and BahrainWatch 6-9pm Friday 13 February – 10-5pm Saturday 14 February School of African & Oriental Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG £5 student or unwaged / £10 waged Sign up online here Full timetable now online here Four years after uprisings swept the…
Activists from Egypt Solidarity Initiative gagged the Sphinx at Cleopatra’s Needle on London’s Embankment during a protest on 22nd November to highlight ongoing repression in Egypt.
By Sherif Azer On the 19th November 2014, students and professors of the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York organized a demo in solidarity with human rights defenders held prisoners in Egypt. This event was held to go in conjunction with the demo taking place on Saturday 22nd November in London.…
Solidarity with the hunger strikers Free the political prisoners No protest law Bring banners, drums and placards to help us make a stand against repression in Egypt. Hunger strikes by political prisoners such as Mohamed Soltan are reaching a critical stage, while the continuing crackdown on the university campuses has seen hundreds of new arrests…
Over 600 Egyptian journalists have signed a statement condemning a declaration of support for the government by their editors and the head of the Egyptian journalists’ union. Leading international journalists, including Channel 4’s Jon Snow, the Guardian’s correspondent in Cairo, Patrick Kingsley and Professor of Journalism at City University, Roy Greenslade have launched an open…
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