Mass death sentences handed down by a court in Egypt’s Minya province to 529 alleged supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood were reached in a trial which lasted only three days without hearing a case for the defence. According to Ahram Online, defence lawyers’ request for a new panel of judges after raising concerns of bias…
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Women activists took to the streets on 8 March to call for the release of women political prisoners in Egypt. A demonstration organised by the Revolutionaries Coalition marched on the headquarters of the National Council for Women in Giza to demand the release of women detainees.
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Egyptian activists organize human chains along October 6th bridge in Cairo to demand the release of political prisoners and condemn indiscriminate arrests and torture in prisons on Tuesday 25 February 2014. Via Revolutionary Socialists facebook page. What you can do: Go Egypt Solidarity Initiative and sign up to the…
The National Executive of the National Union of Students, a confederation of 600 student unions across the UK, passed a resolution yesterday, 20 February, condemning the repression in Egypt. The resolution mandates the NUS to work with other education unions and MENA Solidarity Network around a broad-based solidarity initiative in defence of Egyptians under threat…
Around 65 journalists gathered out side the Egyptian embassy in London yesterday, Wednesday 19 February, demanding that the military drops charges against foreign journalists who are due to go on trial in Cairo today. Al Jazeera journalists Peter Greste, Mohammed Fadel Fahmy and Baher Mohammed have been detained by the Egyptian authorities since 29 December. Their colleague…
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Following publication of a report by 16 human rights organisations alleging arbitrary arrest and torture of people seized by police for exercising the right to protest, Egypt’s prosecutor-general has asserted that there are no political prisoners in Egypt. The report suggests that over a thousand people have recently been arrested for demonstrating on the anniversary…
Protesters arrested during the demonstrations on the anniversary of the uprising against Mubarak in 2011 have given harrowing accounts of torture and sexual assault at the hands of the police, Egyptian human rights organisations said in a statement on 12 February. Activists told how they were beaten, electrocuted and sexually assaulted in Azbakiya police station.…
‘Where is democracy?’ Egyptians have struggled courageously for their freedoms – now they ask if gains of the 2011 revolution are to be dismissed with a new wave of repression. Egypt Solidarity calls urgently for support of those under assault from a regime hostile to human rights and social justice. Army leader Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has…
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