Via prisoners’ rights group al-Hurriya lil Gadaan. Thanks to Ahdaf Soueif for the translation. Sign the petition on Change.org here (Arabic text of the petition translated below) On 21 October 2014, in case 43/2014 Military Crimes North, known as the “Arab Sharkas” case, a military court sentenced 7 citizens to death and 2 to life…
Prosecutors in Egypt are dragging bystanders who attempted to help dying activist Shaimaa el-Sabbagh before the courts on spurious charges, Amnesty International said in a statement on 2 April. Shaimaa was shot dead by the security forces on 24 January as she took part in a small, peaceful protest laying a wreath of flowers in…
Amelia Cooper reports from Geneva The deteriorating human rights situation in Egypt was placed under the spotlight at the 28 Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, as the country was subjected to the Universal Periodic Review, a peer-assessment process during which states and civil society organisations provide information and analyze the overall human…
The Egyptian Economic Development Conference (EEDC) which drew nearly 2000 delegates to the seaside resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on 13-15 March provided Abdelfattah el-Sisi’s regime with a chance to show off its “reforming” credentials to international investors and global politicians. The “reforms” in question are of course, all economic. The corporate and government heads attending…
Blogger and activist Alaa Abdel Fattah and Ahmed Abdel Rahman were sentenced to five years in jail, and given 100,000LE fines in the court case against protesters arrested outside the Shura Council in November 2013. The other 23 defendants in the same case received 3 year sentences and the same level of fine. The long…
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.…
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…
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.…
Egypt Solidarity 