Resources: leaflets for London protest against repression in Egypt 22nd November
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Oxford students join hunger strike in solidarity with Egyptian prisoners
By Amelia Cooper, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s administration is responsible for an unprecedented assault on the enjoyment of basic human rights by Egyptian citizens, as arbitrary laws violating the fundamental principles of human rights and civil liberties are developed and enforced in the name of national security. Highly publicized cases such as the farcical Al…
Sanaa Seif, Yara Sallam and other protesters jailed for three years
Activists who took part in a peaceful protest on 21 June calling for the repeal of repressive anti-protest laws in Egypt have been sentenced to three years in jail and handed a 10,000 EGP fine after court hearings denounced as a “show trial” by Amnesty International. Twenty-year old Sanaa Seif, a student and well-known activist,…
Cambridge students join hunger strike action in solidarity with Egyptian prisoners
Cambridge students and researchers have joined the solidarity hunger strike campaign. Graduate students Mona AlQazzaz and Owen Holland, and researcher Anne Alexander will be taking part in a 24 hour hunger strike on 16th October. This is their statement: We will be taking part in a series of symbolic 24 hour hunger strikes, starting 16th…
Tear gas and mass arrests greet returning students in Egypt
Video: Security forces attack students at the Faculty of Engineering in Alexandria (published 14 October 2014) Egyptian and international human rights organisations condemned a violent crackdown by the authorities on Egyptian campuses this week. According to the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE), nearly 130 students have been arrested in recent days, in…
Hunger strike campaign spreads as Cairo activists call for international solidarity
Students and staff at universities in Cambridge, Berlin and Athens are planning solidarity hunger strikes as part of the the “1000 hours of hunger” campaign launched by SOAS students in response to calls for international solidarity with Egyptian political prisoners. The 1000 hours campaign has already notched up over 400 hours of hunger, following a…
Egypt: Trade union rights campaigners condemn police torture of workers
Originally posted on MENA Solidarity Network:
From the Campaign for a Just Labour Law (Egypt) Wednesday September 17, 2014 Over the past year, Egyptian citizens have endured increased violence and killing in the country’s universities, police stations, prisons, and streets. The number of those detained as a result of their opposition to the current regime…
SOAS students launch call for 1000 hours of hunger for Egypt’s detainees
Students at SOAS in London announced today that they will be joining an international campaign of 24 hour hunger strikes in solidarity with Egyptian detainees beginning on 22 September. Nearly 90 Egyptians are on hunger strike in prisons and police stations across the country in protest at the military’s crackdown on human rights. Over 200…
Detainees and supporters escalate hunger strike in Egypt
According to activists in the ‘We’ve had enough!’ جبنا أخرنا solidarity campaign for Egyptian detainees on hunger strike, over fifty political prisoners have now joined the hunger strike in jails and police stations across Egypt. They are protesting against lengthy prison sentences for joining protests in defiance of the military regime, and the use of…
Solidarity with Mahienour and Egyptian prisoners from Indonesia and Australia
By Feiyi Zhang and Vivian Honan Indonesia has experienced a rising wave of class struggle and workers strikes. Like the Egyptian workers’ movement, Indonesian unions and left-wing organisations are fighting for basic workers’ rights and freedoms. The following Indonesian left groups and unions have passed a motion to condemn the Egyptian military regime for its…
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