Last week, privately owned newspaper Al-Watan reported that the “Revolutionary Punishment” movement posted a warning on its website urging Egyptian judges to forgo their involvement in cases against Brotherhood members…
Reem Magued abandoned the media arena for almost two years, and just as her disappearance raised questions, so has her return. Her disappearance coincided with the Egyptian media’s change in…
You now have on-the-ground reporting from the Occupied Territories that comes from citizen reporters. You also have the reporting around Ferguson that has drawn attention to this violence. This did…
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) published a report Tuesday asserting that there's been a “surge” in the state’s use of sexual violence since former President Mohamed Morsi’s ouster in…
The State Council Administrative Court was due to consider an appeal to halt the execution of six defendants in a trial popularly known as the "Arab Sharkas" case on Tuesday.…
There are no compromises when it comes to human rights. Torture is a crime regardless of who does it; freedom of expression is guaranteed for those we agree with and…
At least 425 journalists and media staffers have lost their jobs since the beginning of the year, and they've decided to protest against what they lambast as the "punitive measures" taken by…
The hanging of six defendants in the Arab Sharkas case, a day after a Cairo court sentenced former president Mohamed Morsi and another 106 people to death, is a clear…
Videos of a curly-haired woman pushing and yelling at a police officer at Cairo airport took social media by storm earlier this month. Yasmine al-Narsh, who is from a wealthy and…
Estimated to number nearly 10,000, the Yemeni community in Egypt remains divided over the political upheaval tearing their country apart. Yet they are also overwhelmingly united in the goal of…
Independent human rights lawyer, 27-year-old Yasmine Hossam al-Din, has been practicing since 2009 — just in time to experience the rights scene before the revolution, the changes that followed, and the…
The National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) will meet on Monday with the High Committee for Legislative Reform to discuss the council’s suggestions on new amendments to the Prisons Law, concerning…
“National Security is a big black box within the Ministry of Interior,” says Sherif Mohie Eddin, counter-terrorism and human rights researcher at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR). He…
Whilst the human rights movement has traditionally focussed on exposing police violations, fighting for economic justice and raising the ceiling for freedom of expression, a battle for personal rights has…
A congratulatory phone call and an unexpected three-hour visit by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday to Saudi Arabia, following the naming of a new crown prince, without the release…
Click on image to zoom in. Throughout the past two years, Egypt has been witnessing different forms of media censorship. Censorship is conveyed and practiced through legal measures, impunity against…
Independent labor unions flourished across Egypt with the popular uprising of 2011, but this growth translated neither into unity nor strength, and these independent associations appear to have withered away…
A public health campaign that began in the 1960s dramatically reduced the prevalence of schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease known locally as bilharzia,…
Chants for bread and social justice didn't emerge out of the January 25, 2011 revolution. Long before 2011, a strong protest movement existed against the economic policies of former President Mubarak…
Tuesday’s assassination of Colonel Wael Tahoun, the former head of the notorious Matareya Police Station, has reignited discussions about violence in the eastern Cairo suburb. Two masked gunmen shot Tahoun…
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