Sunday will mark four years since the start of Egypt’s January 25 revolution. But it is also Police Day, and recent statements in the media are keen to underline this. In…
The cab that took me to downtown Cairo on Saturday had a torso-sized Egyptian flag rising from the middle of its hood. I asked the driver if he wasn’t worried…
“This is the first step along the road,” a smiling young man sings in the video for “Inzil wa sharek” (Go down and take part), a song paid for by…
January 23, 2014 Dear Lina, Adly Mansour is on TV. My father tells me, “It isn't as bad as you think.” I sit begrudgingly to listen, but the tag-line…
Mahmoud Hussein, known for his prolonged detention linked to wearing an anti-torture T-shirt, was arrested on Wednesday in the same case he…
The South Giza Court acquitted a group of 31 activists on Thursday who faced charges of violating the Protest Law and belonging…
The Mousky Misdemeanor Court sentenced 112 people to a year in prison with hard labor on Monday, reported the state-owned Middle East…
Twelve protesters arrested in Maadi on the third anniversary of January 25 were found not guilty by the Maadi Misdemeanors Court Saturday,…
Activists Khaled al-Sayed, Mohamed al-Sayes, Nagy Kamal and Abdallah Mohamed were released Tuesday night, their families reported. The four activists were arrested on…
Several accounts of torture and assaults of inmates in police stations and prisons have led human rights organizations to issue a press…
«Three years ago today it was the day after; the day after fighting in the streets for 18 days to hold Tahrir Square. The day after…»
«Editor’s note: We found it hard to solicit pieces commemorating the January 25 revolution, mainly because we seem to have hit a certain boundary in revolutionary…»
«Today marks the end of the glorious 18 days of the January 25 uprising, which had bred a revolution. It was, no doubt, an ecstatic historical moment,…»
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