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…
A conference organised by MENA Solidarity, Egypt Solidarity Initiative and BahrainWatch 6-9pm Friday 13 February – 10-5pm Saturday 14 February School of African & Oriental Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG £5 student or unwaged / £10 waged Sign up online here Full timetable now online here Four years after uprisings swept the…
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.…
Solidarity with the hunger strikers Free the political prisoners No protest law Bring banners, drums and placards to help us make a stand against repression in Egypt. Hunger strikes by political prisoners such as Mohamed Soltan are reaching a critical stage, while the continuing crackdown on the university campuses has seen hundreds of new arrests…
Over 600 Egyptian journalists have signed a statement condemning a declaration of support for the government by their editors and the head of the Egyptian journalists’ union. Leading international journalists, including Channel 4’s Jon Snow, the Guardian’s correspondent in Cairo, Patrick Kingsley and Professor of Journalism at City University, Roy Greenslade have launched an open…
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By Amelia Cooper, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s administration is responsible for an unprecedented assault on the enjoyment of basic human rights by Egyptian citizens, as arbitrary laws violating the fundamental principles of human rights and civil liberties are developed and enforced in the name of national security. Highly publicized cases such as the farcical Al…
Activists who took part in a peaceful protest on 21 June calling for the repeal of repressive anti-protest laws in Egypt have been sentenced to three years in jail and handed a 10,000 EGP fine after court hearings denounced as a “show trial” by Amnesty International. Twenty-year old Sanaa Seif, a student and well-known activist,…
Cambridge students and researchers have joined the solidarity hunger strike campaign. Graduate students Mona AlQazzaz and Owen Holland, and researcher Anne Alexander will be taking part in a 24 hour hunger strike on 16th October. This is their statement: We will be taking part in a series of symbolic 24 hour hunger strikes, starting 16th…
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