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Egyptian regime builds 35 prisons since 2011 Egyptian authorities have built 35 new prisons in just 10 years, despite increasing demands from human rights organisations to release political detainees and improve human rights conditions, according to a report by an Egyptian rights group. The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said on Tuesday that the massive expansion in prison infrastructure in Egypt since the outbreak of the January 2011 revolution “did not contribute to the improvement of prisoners’ conditions, as inmates are subjected to severe violations and extremely...

Published date: 16 March 2021 09:49 UTC | Last update: 1 week 2 days ago Egyptian free speech advocates are expressing concern that the fate of detained media professionals is being used as a campaigning card ahead of the midterm elections of the Journalists' Syndicate, the independent guild of the nation's newspaper writers. "Some of the candidates are putting pressure on the government to release the journalists put in jail on fabricated and laughable charges," Amr Badr, the head of the Committee on Freedoms at the syndicate, told Middle East Eye.�...

February 25, 2021 at 1:15 pm | Published in: Africa, Egypt, News Ramy Shaath (L) [AmnestyAR/Twitter, Zyad El-Elaimy (R) [haythamabokhal1/Twitter] February 25, 2021 at 1:15 pm The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information has gathered testimonies from the families of political prisoners which show they are denied simple food items such as bread and fruit, reports t he New Arab. One of the testimonies was from Alaa Abdelfattah's mother: "They [the prison authorities] refused to take wipes, cumin and thyme, but this was not the first time. They finally decided not to take two types of frui...

Neoliberal Authoritarianism in Egypt Yanis Iqbal The whiplash of authoritarianism is being ruthlessly used in Egypt. On January 6, 2021, Ahmed Khalifa, social news editor of Egypt 360 website, was arrested after publishing a series of reports on workers’ legitimate protests. He was falsely charged with joining a terrorist group and spreading fake news, and remains in detention to date. Before his arrest, Khalifa published articles about strikes at the state-owned ElDelta Company for Fertilizers and Chemical Industry.   Contents   In 2011, bold protest chants flowed out from Tahrir Square:...

by Yanis Iqbal / February 8th, 2021 The whiplash of authoritarianism is being ruthlessly used in Egypt. On January 6, 2021, Ahmed Khalifa, social news editor of Egypt 360 website, was arrested after publishing a series of reports on workers’ legitimate protests. He was falsely charged with joining a terrorist group and spreading fake news, and remains in detention to date. Before his arrest, Khalifa published articles about strikes at the state-owned ElDelta Company for Fertilizers and Chemical Industry. Turn of Events In 2011, bold protest chants flowed out from Tahrir Square: from “...