Revolutionary Socialist activist Mahienour el-Masry and 8 other activists saw their sentences upheld by a court in Alexandria on 20 May. They were sentenced to serve 2 years in jail for breaking Egypt’s repressive anti-protest laws last year. Read more on the background to the case here. Take action now: Write to the Egyptian authorities…
A new briefing by Egypt Solidarity exposes the scale of the crackdown on Egyptian university campuses over the past academic year. Author Nicola Pratt, Reader of International Politics of the Middle East at the University of Warwick, documents an extensive catalogue of abuses by the security forces including shooting protesting students, arbitrary mass arrests and…
Use this leaflet to build for our workshop on 24 May, now updated with support from SOAS UCU, SOAS Unison and SOAS Students Union. [Download a pdf here] Find out more here about the speakers and sign up online.
Thousands of activists marched to al-Ittihadiyya presidential palace in Cairo on 26 April to demand the release of political prisoners and against law which criminalise protest. Tens of thousands of Egyptians have disappeared into the prison system during the crackdown of recent months. Unknown numbers are being held without the knowledge of their families or…
Delegates at the annual conference of the National Union of Students, the UK’s national federation of student unions, highlighted the problems faced by their colleagues in Egypt by creating a calendar of repression, detailing police attacks on student protests, arrests and killings since September 2013. Find out more here about how you can get involved…
According to the Revolutionary Socialists Twitter account, Alexandrian activist Mahienour el-Masry has been released by prosecutors pending a hearing on 20 May to determine sentencing. Read more here about her arrest and trial for breaking the anti protest laws.
Update: 12 April – Mahienour al-Masry released pending a sentencing hearing on 20 May in connection with her case for breaking the anti-protest laws. Revolutionary Socialist activist Mahienour el-Masry has been arrested in Alexandria and is currently being interrogated by prosecutors, the Revolutionary Socialists said on their Twitter account last night. Mahienour, a well known…
As violence escalates on Egyptian university campuses, our new toolkit of resources provides background information on the security crackdown, which has seen hundreds of students arrested and at least 8 killed by the security forces. Find out more here
Over 1000 people from 50 countries have signed the statement launched by Egypt Solidarity in response to the mass death sentences imposed by Egypt’s military regime on alleged supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood. On Monday 24 March, a court in Minya province condemned 529 people to death for the murder of a police officer in…
[Following the further mass death sentences handed down against another 683 defendants on 28 April and the commutation of 492 of the original death sentences to 25 -year jail terms, we will be handing in collected signatures to the Egyptian Embassy on 5 June, in advance of the first round of appeals. The text of…
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