The sentences handed down to Al-Jazeera journalists Peter Greste, Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy sparked outrage and protest worldwide, with journalists across the globe taping shut their mouths in silent condemnation of the verdicts. The three AJ staff members were given 7-10 year jail sentences for allegedly aiding the Muslim Brotherhood and ‘reporting false news’.…
Following the confirmation of death sentences against 183 people by Egyptian courts on 21 June, we publish an English translation of a statement signed by hundreds of Egyptian activists calling for the abolition of the death penalty. Initial signatories include writer and journalist Ahdaf Soueif, human rights lawyers Gamal Eid and Emad Mubarak, writer and…
Protesters took to the streets of cities in four continents over two days of international solidarity actions backing the #noprotestlaw campaign. Demonstrations and rallies took place in Buenos Aires, Athens, Dublin, Derry, Paris, Berlin, London and New York City demanding the release of political prisoners and highlighting the cases of activists tried under the repressive protest…
Revolutionary movements and activists in Egypt will be marching to the presidential palace today to demand freedom for the thousands of detainees seized by the military regime since it took power last year. They have called for international solidarity with the campaign. Read more here about how you can get involved. Let Egypt’s generals know…
Leading figures from the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton in the UK and other academics in the field of Internet and Media research called yesterday for the release of Alaa Abdel-Fattah and others detained under the protest law in Egypt. Alaa, a prominent blogger and activist under Mubarak and a leading…
Egyptian activists are organising a series of events building resistance to the anti-protest law and solidarity with the detainees. They are calling for activists around the world to make 21 June a day of action and protest calilng for the release of prisoners like Mahienour el-Masry, Mohamed Soltan, and Alaa Abdel Fattah. Events are being…
Demonstrators gathered at the Egyptian Embassy in London on 5 June to condemn the crackdown against opponents of the military regime. Days before the inauguration of Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi as Egypt’s new president, trade unionists, lawyers, students and activists handed in a statement condemning the mass death sentences handed down by al-Sisi’s hanging judges against regime…
Around 50 people took part in a half-day workshop organised by Egypt Solidarity Initiative on 24 May, launching a new drive for international solidarity in the face of escalating repression in Egypt. A powerful appeal from novelist Ahdaf Soueif and human rights campaigner Aida Seif el-Dawla was read out at the event, calling for…
Journalist and novelist Ahdaf Soueif and leading anti-torture campaigner Aida Seif el-Dawla are among dozens of well-known Egyptian activists who have launched a call for international signatures on a letter to the Egyptian Human Rights Council protesting at the continued detention of Abdallah al-Shami and Muhammad Sultan. The two men, who have been imprisoned without…
Delegates at the annual conference of the PCS union which represents 300,000 government workers across the UK pledged their support for the international campaign in solidarity socialist activist Mahienour el-Masry, jailed for two years earlier this week for organising a protest. Activists from MENA Solidarity gathered signatures on a giant postcard calling for Mahienour’s release…
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