Monitoring, Tough Message on Dire Rights Situation Long Overdue Egyptian security forces have been involved in systematic abuses such as enforced disappearance and torture and have used abusive counterterrorism laws and measures to crush peaceful dissent. Egyptian security forces stand guard outside one of the entrances of Tora prison, in Cairo, Egypt. © 2015 Hassan Ammar/AP Images
(Geneva) – Egypt’s human rights community is facing “annihilation” by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s government, more than 100 leading human rights organizations from around the world have warned today in a letter to foreign ministers.
The groups called on governments to lead and support the creation of a monitoring and reporting mechanism on the ever-deteriorating human rights situation in Egypt at the upcoming 46th regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council scheduled to begin on February 22, 2021. Establishing a monitoring and reporting
Human Rights Council: Countries Should Take Bold Action on Egypt Monitoring, Tough Message on Dire Rights Situation Long Overdue
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Solidarity with those who resist
Eight politicians from Germany s left-wing party – Die Linke – have signed a solidarity statement calling for the immediate release of all political detainees, which explicitly highlights the fate of six detained leftist activists, journalists and trade unionists. According to the statement published on the anniversary of the revolution, Egyptian leftists were the ones who carried the confrontations with the regime into factories and workplaces in 2011. “Their efforts contributed to organising strikes which ultimately forced Hosni Mubarak to resign.”
Since Sisi’s takeover, fundamental civil liberties have been suspended and tens of thousands of people imprisoned for political reasons, the statement highlights. This includes Islamists, liberals, leftists, trade unionists, media professionals and human rights defenders. “Independent trade unions and youth organisations have been dismantled” and torture in Egyptian police stations rem
Egypt Denied an Oxygen Failure Killed Covid Patients. We Found That It Did.
For many Egyptians, a video offered a rare and uncensored view of the coronavirus’s real toll at the peak of Egypt’s second wave of the pandemic.
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EL HUSSEINEYA, Egypt A cry pierced the night from the balcony of an Egyptian hospital. A nurse was screaming that the patients in the Covid intensive care unit were gasping for air.
Ahmed Nafei, who was standing outside, brushed past a security guard, dashed in and saw that his 62-year-old aunt was dead.
Furious, he whipped out his phone and began filming. It appeared that the hospital had run out of oxygen. Monitors were beeping. A nurse was visibly distressed and cowering in a corner as her colleagues tried to resuscitate a man using a manual ventilator.
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