Thinking with Alaa
"When I demand my right to read and write, I am not asking for a luxury."
"When I demand my right to read and write, I am not asking for a luxury."
At 9 pm on Tuesday, May 24, in a Giza prison, an appeal session was underway for 47 defendants accused of protesting on April 25 against the conceding of Tiran…
Those who manage to receive news of their loved ones say they lack access to food, clean water and medication.
A group of young activists is calling on Egyptians to boycott the parliamentary elections in honor of the martyrs of the revolution and imprisoned political dissidents. But given the boycott's…
Two photojournalists were handed 15-day detention renewals by the Supreme State Security Prosecution
His family claims he has been denied medical treatment and unlawfully kept in solitary confinement
US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power called for the release of Egyptian prisoner Omar Mohamed on Sunday, as part of the…
The pardons announced last week by Sisi include some detainees and not others on similar charges, and even in the same case.
Coinciding with the first day of the Eid holiday on Monday, the Egyptian government began releasing prisoners whom Sisi had been pardoned…
Four detainees were transferred to hospital after guards assaulted them in an Alexandria courthouse Wednesday, according to the defendants' lawyer. Mohamed Hafez, a lawyer…
«In May 2014, on a flight home from a business trip, I picked up a newspaper from a flight attendant and came across news of a…»
«Five years ago on what would turn out to be the last normal day of my life I sat down at my desk in a small…»
«Muhannad Ihab, a child who suffered through juvenile detention, imprisonment, disease and Miry Hospital. On December 10, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement in celebration…»
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