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714 protests in Egypt in November, Islamists’ revolution and Mubarak verdict major triggers: Democracy Index
Report warns of ‘angry’ movements and ‘violent’ state strategy next 25 January anniversary
Activist Ragia Omran innocent of disrupting trial
Omran’s Lawyer claims judge talks like “enemy of the revolution and youth”
Activists launch legal guide for homosexuals in Egypt
Guide discusses violations against homosexuals by the police, employers and people in public places
Human rights organisations launch civil society awareness campaign
EIPR will not register under the law proposed by the government
Activist Asmaa Mahfouz banned from travelling
Mahfouz was kept for three hours inside the criminal investigation office at the airport until investigations could determine whether there were other lawsuits against her.
Contradictory accounts over activist Ahmed Douma’s hunger strike
Rights group says hunger strikes on rise
My release is a ‘conspiracy’: Alaa Abdel Fattah
Activist and family continue hunger strike
Mahienour El-Massry starts hunger strike
Political movements to announce support for hunger strikes, lawyer says
Alaa Abdel Fattah launches hunger strike
Prominent activist vows he will “no longer play the role they’ve written for me”
Street art goes highbrow
New downtown Cairo art space, Heytan, seeks to celebrate and propagate street art
Protest Law to be appealed before SCC
An NGO and a law centre had both filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the infamous law
‘Down with the classist society’: Mahienour El-Massry
Activist calls on revolutionaries from prison to provide alternatives for oppressed
Alexandria activist released on bail
No charges pressed against him, says ANHRI lawyer
AFTE condemns arrest of activist supporters
Four activists detained for violating protest law
Groups condemn Alexandrian activist’s imprisonment
Sentenced to two years in prison, Mahienour El-Massry is accused of taking part in a protest without prior notice; court to appeal her imprisonment
Trial of Alexandria lawyers and activists postponed
Defendants are on trial for incident dating back to March 2013, during tenure of then-president Mohamed Morsi
Political activists released on bail
Abu Zeid was arrested while giving a literacy class in an informal neighbourhood
Female sit-in held outside presidential palace against the Protest Law
Female protesters decry prison verdicts maintained to prominent activists
Egypt bars entry to Lebanese activist
AFP – Egypt has barred entry to a Lebanese activist who wanted to deliver a petition against a court’s death sentences for 529 alleged rioters, an official with the activist’s group said Friday. Wissam Tarif, a member of the US-based Avaaz human rights organisation, was detained at Cairo airport for several hours and put on a …
This time, it’s a moment of defeat: Abdel Fattah
“This is not just about me. It’s almost as if it’s a war on a whole generation,” says prominent activist Alaa Abdel Fattah
Egypt deports US anti-war activist travelling to Gaza
Medea Benjamin, who co-founded the CodePink anti-war group, was detained on arrival in Cairo airport on Monday.
AFTE holds presser for Al-Azhar students sentenced to 17 years
The court’s verdict is against the law: AFTE lawyer
Hassan Mustafa acquitted
Alexandrian political activist has faced three different trials in a year
Hassan Mustafa’s verdict suspended
Verdict served in absentia; Mustafa to appeal it
Saudi bails activist arrested over reformist meetings
Activist Waleed Abulkhair was arrested for holding “unauthorised” gatherings with reformists
Social media activist held in dragnet after Sudan demos
Eight security officers took Dalia El Roubi from her family home on Monday, her husband Abdelrahman Elmahdi
Constituent Assembly’s female representation shows poor quantity, good quality: women’s rights activists
Prominent columnist and journalist Farida El Shoubashy said that the number of seats allocated for female members is not sufficient, but the five members chosen are “heavy-weight.”
Activist group presses for constitutional amendment to ban military trials
No Military Trials for Civilians puts forward submission for constitutional amendments
Hassan Mustafa released
Court orders the release of Alexandrian political activist after six months in jail
Douma missing after court orders his release
The activist’s whereabouts are unknown to family and Cairo’s Security Directorate amid transfer from Tanta to Tora; court orders trial into Moqattam clashes