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…
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Abdi Suleiman, Owen Jones and Ala’a Shehabi at the final session of the conference Around 140 people took part in lively discussions at our conference on 13/14 February exploring resistance and solidarity in the Middle East four years after the Arab Revolutions of 2011. Speakers from Morocco, Bahrain, Egypt…
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…
In a few days time we will be hosting activists from across the Middle East at our conference on 13/14 February to debate and discuss what is happening in the region and explore ways to build a stronger movement in solidarity with those who are continuing, despite all the difficulties, to work for change from…
The provisional programme for our conference, ‘The Arab Uprisings Four Years On – Revolution, Repression and Resistance’ is now available online. Read more about the event, download a copy of the timetable, and book online here. Speakers confirmed for the event include: Owen Jones | Sarah Waldron | Ali Abdulemam | Maryam al-Khawaja | Gilbert Achcar…
In September 2014 we launched a campaign to highlight the courage of hundreds of Egyptian political prisoners on hunger strike in protest at abuse and injustice. 1000 hours of hunger asked activists outside Egypt to take part in a symbolic series of 24 hour solidarity hunger strikes. Over the following two months 44 people in…
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.…
Film-maker Ken Loach, Irish civil rights activist and journalist Eamonn McCann, the Communication Workers’ Union general secretary Billy Hayes and leading academics from Oxford, Cambridge, London and other UK universities yesterday signed a statement condemning the latest moves by Egypt’s military regime to clamp down on opposition activists. Published in The Guardian’s print edition this…
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…
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