Dozens of doctors, trade unionists and academics from Greece, the UK, the Netherlands, Ireland and the USA have launched an international statement calling for the release of Egyptian doctors’ union activist Dr Taher Mokhtar following his arrest on 14 January in a dawn raid on his home. Add your name to the statement online here…
Banner drops, street rallies and marches greeted Egyptian president Abdelfattah al-Sisi on the first day of his state visit to Germany on 3 June. Human rights groups, journalists, left-wing and Green MPs, and Egyptian activists living in Germany played a key role in mobilising anger at Sisi’s ‘red-carpet’ treatment from German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The…
Egyptian activists are calling for two days of solidarity action outside Egypt on June 20-21 to highlight repression and mobilise support for the campaigns to free political prisoners. Read the call for action here. In the run-up to June 20-21, we are asking Egypt Solidarity supporters to help us spread the word about what is…
On 25 March 2015, and as part of York Human Rights Film Festival, organized by Center for Applied Human Rights and York Human Rights City Network, a screening of the Oscar nominated documentary The Square was held, followed by discussion with Egyptian human rights activist Sherif Azer. The event was followed by solidarity group photos…
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…
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.
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…
Students and staff at universities in Cambridge, Berlin and Athens are planning solidarity hunger strikes as part of the the “1000 hours of hunger” campaign launched by SOAS students in response to calls for international solidarity with Egyptian political prisoners. The 1000 hours campaign has already notched up over 400 hours of hunger, following a…
Students at SOAS in London announced today that they will be joining an international campaign of 24 hour hunger strikes in solidarity with Egyptian detainees beginning on 22 September. Nearly 90 Egyptians are on hunger strike in prisons and police stations across the country in protest at the military’s crackdown on human rights. Over 200…
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