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Egypt's clampdown on political dissent increasingly includes family members of activists living abroad. The Sisi regime has also admitted to leveraging the release of individual political prisoners for financial aid. Jennifer Holleis reports

Egypt's clampdown on political dissent increasingly includes family members of activists living abroad. The Sisi regime has also admitted to leveraging the release of individual political prisoners for financial aid. Jennifer Holleis reports

Egypt's clampdown on political dissent increasingly includes family members of activists living abroad. The government has also admitted to leveraging the release of individual political prisoners for financial aid.

Patrick George Zaki, an Egyptian-Italian graduate student and a human rights researcher, was arrested in February 2020 - en route from Italy where he studied - and held in pre-trial detention for over a year and a half before his trial kicked off.

Gamaal el-Gamal, who suffers five chronic illnesses, is at risk of death in custody, his friends warn Gamaal el-Gamal, an Egyptian journalist and columnist, was detained at Cairo airport on 22 February (Social media) By Published date: 2 March 2021 15:54 UTC | Last update: 3 weeks 1 day ago Egypt has ordered the pre-trial detention of journalist and government critic Gamaal el-Gamal after his return from Turkey, where he spent the past ...

Italian Writer Returns French Honor In Protest Corrado Augias objects Frances Macron awarding Legion of Honor to Egyptian President al Sisi. Italian journalist and writer Corrado Augias personally returned his Legion of Honor on Monday to the French embassy in Italy, in a sign of protest against the decoration of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi with the same award. Augias, 85, refused to "share this honor" with al-Sisi, who was...

URL copied to clipboard In February 2020, as he arrived back in Cairo to visit family, Patrick Zaky, a Masters student at Bologna University, was arrested by Egyptian authorities. Zaky, a researcher of gender rights for the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), was detained on charges including “spreading false news” and “an incitement to protest”. His lawyer, Wael Ghally, claimed he was “beaten and tortured”. Ten months on, he is still being held in prison, awaiting h...