1967: the moment that fractured the new nationalism; politically formative for generations to follow
Two years on from the death of Ahmed Seif, a pioneering figure in Egypt's human rights movement, we remember his legacy.
This is an introduction to a series of interviews by Mada Masr with human rights workers in Egypt that attempts to situate the struggle for rights within the context of…
In a memorial organized by the Law and Society Research Unit and the Law Department at the American University in Cairo, colleagues and family members of late human rights defender…
Imprisoned leftist activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah has moved to a partial hunger strike as of Wednesday, after more than three months on…
The National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) is urging prison authorities to provide hunger-striking detainee Ahmed Douma with immediate medical attention and…
Hundreds marched in the funeral of renowned human rights lawyer Ahmed Seif al-Islam on Thursday, gathering to lay his body to rest…
Taher Abul Nasr, Alaa Abd El Fattah’s lawyer, told Mada Masr that the Interior Ministry approved Alaa’s request to attend his father’s…
Renowned human rights lawyer Ahmed Seif al-Islam died on Wednesday after slipping into a coma following open-heart surgery earlier this month, his family announced in…
« We saw a revolution erupt, then we saw it die. We saw people whom we once thought were good show an ugly face. We saw…»
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