This statement signed by members of Australia’s provincial parliaments and Senate, as well as senior academics and leading trade unionists, was handed to the Egyptian consulate in Sydney in protest at the jailing and detention of hundreds of Egyptian activists in the recent crackdown. Add your name to the companion international statement here. Statement of…
The Appeal court in Egypt has overturned the 5 year jail sentences handed down to 47 of the detainees arrested during the April 25 protests, but left them with a collective fine of 4.7 million Egyptian pounds to pay. If they cannot pay the fine they will have to remain in jail for two more…
Another 11 prisoners have joined the hunger strike by detainees arrested and jailed over the April 25 protests in Egypt, according to prisoner solidarity group, Freedom for the Brave. Ten detainees began a hunger strike on 18 May, and were joined by 11 more on 21 May. They are protesting the long jail sentences handed…
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell MP and Irish MPs and members of the Stormont Assembly in Northern Ireland from People before Profit are among the latest high-profile signatories to the solidarity statement with political prisoners in Egypt. TDs (members of the Irish parliament) Brid Smith, RIchard Boyd Barrett and Gino Kenny, and elected members of the…
Dozens of prisoners sentenced to five year jail terms in the latest crackdown of protest in Egypt announced a hunger strike beginning evening 18 May. They include Mohamed Nagy, a human rights researcher and graduate student who is coordinator of research into violations of students’ rights for the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression,…
Egyptian judges handed down long jail terms to over 150 activists seized in the latest crackdown on protests over the transfer of the Tiran and Sanafir Islands to Saudi Arabia. 101 defendants were given five year jail sentences and 100,000 Egyptian pound fines, while in another case 51 defendants received two year jail sentences. Overall,…
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