Eric Ruder reports on the release of Egyptian human rights lawyer Malek Adly and the struggle to win freedom for other activists facing repression.
MALEK ADLY, a well-known human rights lawyer and activist, emerged from an Egyptian prison in late August after spending three months in solitary (...)
Temperatures in Egypt will reach 45 degrees Celsius by tomorrow!
While many suffer because of this heat wave, Egyptian prisoners -in particular -are feeling the brunt of this hideously hot weather. Former prisoners have talked in detail about the deteriorating conditions of prisons in Egypt (...)
The arrest and detention of labour lawyer Haitham Mohamedain has sparked solidarity from around the world. A statement signed by dozens of prominent trade unionists, academics and campaigners in the UK was launched by Egypt Solidarity Initiative today. Signatories include Ian Hodson, General (...)
Egyptian security forces are carrying out widespread raids and repression in response to growing social and political discontent, which led to the first widespread stirrings of popular protest since the military regime led by Gen. Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi came to power nearly two years ago.
As (...)
STATEMENT BY 17 EGYPTIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS
March 21, 2016
The Perpetrators of Human Rights Abuses Retaliate Against Rights Groups, the Voice of Victims:
In a time when the torture and murder of Egyptians has become a mark of patriotism, defenders of the victims of these crimes are (...)
The autobiography of veteran Leftist Chaudhry Fateh Mohammad Jo Hum Peh Guzzi documents the history of Left-wing politics and struggle of working classes
Review of Jo Hum Peh Guzri Chaudhry Fateh Mohammad. Publisher: Sanjh Publications. Price: Rs500. Pages: 247.
The freedom fighters of India (...)
To: Ms Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy / Vice-President of the Commission
Dear Ms Mogherini,
On 2 February 2016 the body of Giulio Regeni, the Italian doctoral student at Cambridge University who disappeared in Cairo on Jan. 25, was (...)
Five years after the great rebellion called “The Revolution of January 25th 2011” in Egypt, a balance is due. After such a time interval one is better able to judge events. Now it is obvious that this uprising is only the beginning of a long revolutionary road. There is still much more to be (...)
Egypt Solidarity has prepared this statement in collaboration with Egyptian activists who are deeply involved with mobilising solidarity campaigns for political prisoners both inside and outside Egypt, including relatives and friends of detainees. In order not to expose individuals and families (...)
About a month ago I went to visit a friend in prison.
It doesn’t matter who he or she was, since there are now hundreds of young men and women in Egypt’s prisons because of the new Protest Law. The prisons are full to the brim with teenagers, students, fathers, brothers, daughters and only sons. (...)
On June 5th, 2014, the Misdemeanour Court of Appeal of Beba has confirmed the judgment of 5 years imprisonment made in the first instance and thus the fact that Karam is guilty of “defamation of religion” in his book “Where is God ?” But Once again, the Court decided in absentia. They can put him (...)
According to the official figures, which are quite clearly rigged, unverifiable and in which nobody believes, 93 per cent of electors voted for Marshal Sissi. But simultaneously, only half of the electorate took part in the vote. The left Nasserist Sabahi, the only candidate against Sissi, (...)
The political and social crisis (first six months of 2013)
After six months in power, the Muslim Brotherhood had revealed its inability to respond to popular demands. This caused social anger, with a big wave of strikes, sit-ins, social protests, demonstrations and protests in poor (...)
The military regime in Egypt is carrying out a reign of terror to consolidate its power. Responding to the emergency, the workers’ solidarity network MENA has launched an online petition to protest the atrocity of the fraudulent “trial” and mass death sentences imposed on 529 people. You can learn (...)
Last month marked the one year anniversary of the massacre at Port Said in Egypt. Though much was made in the North American media of the so-called “Arab Spring,” attention quickly turned away as the politics became demonstrably more complicated than a simple narrative of liberal, democratic (...)
ON JANUARY 14 and 15, Egypt held a referendum on a new constitution, drafted following the ouster of president Morsi on July 3rd of last year. The constitution will replace the one promulgated previously, in 2012.
It was a foregone conclusion that, since the referendum was presented as a vote (...)
Nasserism, by far, is the main form of progressive political consciousness that one can find in Egypt, when it takes the form of nostalgia, not for military rule, but for social benefits, jobs, agrarian reform, democratisation of education, and the national dignity of Egypt as incarnated and (...)
Dear comrades and friends:
We are writing to ask you to sign on to the petition published below. It has been written in collaboration and input of several key organizations in Egypt who are facing both repression and organizing resistance against the curtailment of basic democratic rights in (...)
The massive rejection of the repressive neoliberal policies of the Muslim Brotherhood was reflected in spring 2013 by the biggest popular mobilisation that Egypt had know in its long history. The left forces were unfortunately not in a position to offer a political outcome finally allowing the (...)
Having lived for many years in France where he was especially a trade-union activist, Hany Hanna returned to live in his native Egypt after Mubarak’s fall. He works there as a freelance journalist and translator. He was interviewed on October 9, 2013 by Alain Baron.
On the Muslim Brotherhood (...)
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