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Egypt: Unprecedented crackdown on freedom of expression under al-Sisi turns Egypt into open-air prison

By Amnesty International -The crackdown on freedom of expression under Egyptian President Abdelfattah al-Sisi has reached alarming new levels unparalleled in Egypt’s recent history,...

- September 21, 2018 0

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Egypt Leads the Pack in Internet Censorship Across the Middle East

By Elissa Miller - Atlantic Council - Internet censorship around the world, including in the Middle East, is not a new phenomenon. Freedom of expression facilitated...

- September 5, 2018 0

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MP Accuses NGOs of Connection to Foreign Intelligence

By POMEDOn March 8, Egyptian MP Alaa Abed accused seven prominent NGOs and human rights organizations of receiving funding from foreign intelligence agencies in exchange for publishing "fabricated"...

- March 12, 2018 0

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UN Human Rights Chief Denounces Egypt’s Media Intimidation

By POMED -On March 7, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein described the Egyptian government's suppression of freedom of expression in recent months as...

- March 7, 2018 0

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Facebook “Intellectually Terrorizes” A Human Rights Activist

By Magdi Khalil - FrontPage MagazineEditor’s note: Magdi Khalil, an Egyptian-born human right’s activist and Copt now living in America, explains how he escaped...

- February 20, 2018 1

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Egyptian TV network’s sale concerns free-press advocates

By Albaraa Abdullah - Al-MonitorCAIRO — It appears the Egyptian government has indirectly tightened its hold on the media yet again. An Egyptian security...

- September 28, 2017 0

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How far is Egypt willing to go to have strong grip on media?

By Khalid Hassan- Al MonitorBrig. Gen. Mohamed Samir, a former spokesman for the Egyptian armed forces, assumed the position of director general at Al-Aseema...

- February 14, 2017 0

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Press Law in Egypt Diminishes Hopes for Independent Media

By Khaled Dawoud - MENA- Atlantic Council -Shortly after unprecedented jail terms were issued against leading members of Egypt’s Press Syndicate, President AbdelFattah al-Sisi approved...

- January 11, 2017 0

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Egypt: Copt and son killed in IS attack September 7, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesPrayers in Deir El-Garnouse Coptic church, near Al-Minya in Upper Egypt, after Islamic State opened fire on a convoy carrying Copts, killing at least 28 people in May 2017. A Christian father and son were killed by suspected Islamic State militants in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on 30 August. The two Copts, Salama […]
Egypt: Father and son stabbed in latest attack on Copts August 12, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesCopts in Egypt have been targeted in a string of attacks this year. An elderly Coptic Christian and his son who run an off-license shop in Giza, central Egypt, were hospitalized after they were severely injured in an attack. Joseph Israel, 70, was sitting outside his shop in the Omrania district in […]
Egypt: Copt stabbed seven times by neighbour who’d lured in his son March 24, 2022
An Egyptian Christian was stabbed multiple times when he tried to rescue his son who was held against his will by a Muslim neighbour in Alexandria. On the night of 15 February, Magdy Fathy Shehata Awad Allah, deacon at the Coptic Orthodox Church in the northeast of Alexandria and a human rights activist, was rushed […]
Egypt: Coptic Christian imprisoned for 5 years for ‘blasphemy’ February 9, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesA police man enters a prison on the outskirts of Egypt’s capital Cairo. A Coptic Christian has been sentenced to five years in prison for blasphemy, according to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, or EIPR, which represented him during his trial. On 29 January the Cairo Economic Court found Marco Gerges […]

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