Dozens of academics at UK universities have signed an open letter condemning the visit by Egyptian dictator Abdelfattah al-Sisi to the UK. The letter, which was published in The Independent, attacks the repression faced by students and university staff in Egypt at the hands of Sisi’s regime. Join the protest against Sisi’s visit – 5pm,…
Egypt Solidarity Initiative will be joining with other organisations in a joint protest at 5pm on Wednesday 4 November at Downing Street against Sisi’s visit. Please help us spread the word. We need mobilise as many people as we can to send a clear message that Sisi is not welcome in the UK. Click here…
As activists around the world mobilise protests against Israeli occupation, Egypt’s campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions is defying the military regime of Abdelfattah al-Sisi to join the global wave of solidarity with the Palestinian resistance. Despite heavy repression, students in Cairo, Alexandria, Zagazig and other Egyptian universities have organised vigils, poster displays and impromptu…
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The new issue of our magazine, Middle East Solidarity, is out now. You can order online or on the phone from Bookmarks Bookshop (click here for details), or look out for us at events and protests. We’ll have copies to buy at the People’s Assembly protest outside Tory Party…
After a long international campaign for their release, Yara Sallam and Sanaa Seif walked free from Qanater Prison last week after receiving a presidential pardon. They were arrested after a march against draconian anti-protest laws was attacked and broken up by the police and armed thugs on 21 June 2014 and sentenced to two years…
Egypt Solidarity Initiative joined Stop the Arms Fair protests and activists marching in solidarity with refugees Saturday 12 September. Stop the Arms Fair and Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) held protests outside the ExCel centre in London during the past week. The ExCel centre is yearly host to one of the world’s biggest arms fairs…
From 7 to 12 September, Stop the Arms Fair is organising a week of action in protest of the DSEI arms fair. Egypt Solidarity Initiative will be joining other anti war organisations in solidarity.
Two years after the killing of around 1,000 protesters at Raba’a al-Adawiyya and al-Nahda Squares in Cairo by Egyptian security forces, not a single government or security official has been held responsible, Egyptian and international human rights organisations said today. Human Rights Watch, which labelled the events a “likely crime against humanity” in a report…
Trade union leaders Mark Serwotka and Dave Ward confirmed their backing for the campaign against the visit of Egyptian dictator Abdelfattah el-Sisi to the UK following a packed meeting on 29 July against new anti-trade union laws proposed by David Cameron’s Tory government. Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the civil servants union PCS, and Dave…
Irish teenager, Ibrahim Halawa, was just 17 years old when, during one of his family’s annual holidays to Egypt, he was arrested during protests that took place in Cairo in August 2013. As we approach two years since his arrest, Egypt Solidarity Initiative spoke to his sister, Somaia (27), about Ibrahim’s case. Somaia and Ibrahim…
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