First published on Egypt Solidarity As Egypt prepares to host November’s COP27 climate summit, Egyptian activists have issued an urgent appeal to the global climate justice movement not to be taken in by the regime’s claims to speak on behalf of ordinary people in the Global South. In a statement published by Egypt Solidarity Initiative,…
This is an article from the current issue of Middle East Solidarity magazine – help us continue our work by donating £2 for a digital copy online Tens of thousands of prisoners remain at risk of Covid 19 in Egypt’s overcrowded and insanitary jails, while their families have been denied visiting rights and information about…
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…
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