Human rights lawyer Mahienour el-Masry is one of hundreds who have been arrested in recent days, as part of an escalating crackdown in response to protests in a number of Egyptian cities demanding the resignation of Egyptian president Abdelfattah al-Sisi. According to reports from a friend who was speaking to her on the telephone during…
Egyptian activists organize human chains along October 6th bridge in Cairo to demand the release of political prisoners and condemn indiscriminate arrests and torture in prisons on Tuesday 25 February 2014. Via Revolutionary Socialists facebook page. What you can do: Go Egypt Solidarity Initiative and sign up to the campaign against repression in Egypt
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Egypt’s Court for Urgent Matters has ruled (24 February) that police officers can be redeployed permanently on all university campuses. In 2010 police were banned from campuses by the High Administrative Court. In November 2013, the interim government issued a law allowing security forces to enter campuses to maintain the…
