A growing number of Egyptian prisoners have joined a widespread wave of hunger strikes, including well-known activists associated with the January 25 revolution who were detained on charges related to…
Introduction by Elliott Colla: Like hundreds of other prisoners of conscience now languishing in Sisi's prisons, Ahmed Douma has a long background in activism. One of the founders of Kefaya…
Graffiti for two .. Alaa and Douma (1) I know that despair is treason but the revolutionary in my country — even if he’s a sinless prophet — when he…
Prominent Egyptian activist and writer Ahmed Douma has entered a new cycle of remand detention, with a court rejecting an appeal against…
A Badr misdemeanor court extended on Thursday the detention of prominent Egyptian activist and writer Ahmed Douma for an additional 15 days…
Activist and writer Ahmed Douma was detained, again, on Monday by the Supreme State Security Prosecution which ordered he be held for…
Police arrested activist and writer Ahmed Douma from his home in the early hours of this morning, lawyer Nabih al-Genady told Mada…
Poet and political activist Ahmed Douma told Mada Masr that Cairo International Airport authorities prevented him early Sunday from traveling to Beirut…
30 others were released from remand detention on Friday
«Keeping one in the room even when they aren’t is never only about the person you're trying to hold»
«We have much more from Alaa than his absent condition and possible disappearance to grapple with»
«Tradition paired with revolutionary seems an obvious oxymoron, like a contained outburst.»
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