Latest in Tag: Freedom Highlight
Latest in Tag: Freedom
Morsi supporters protest against presidential elections
Protests on Friday devolve into clashes leaving at least one killed
Badie protests prosecutionâs court argument: Lawyer
Muslim Brotherhood leadersâ trial for inciting violence postponed to 14 June
Press Syndicate tracks violations against journalists during elections
Press Syndicateâs operations room has documented dozens of violations against journalists during presidential elections
Freedom for the Brave wary of verdict in Al-Azhar studentsâ appeal
Movement calls for reversing a court ruling sentencing 12 students to 17 years in prison
Obama nominates new American ambassador to Egypt
Robert Stephen Beecroft, the potential ambassador, has been ambassador to Iraq since 2012
Torture is an âunwritten lawâ: Rights groups
Rights groups condemn continued torture practices
The chant for freedom
By Sara Khorshid By now it has become clichĂ© for observers in Egypt and worldwide to say that the Egyptian revolution is dead. Everyone knows it is. Everyone knows that three years after the 25 January uprising, the military and the police have consolidated their decades-long power, corruption continues to dominate the state and all …
Detention, killing of journalists leads to increased self censorship: NGOs
On World Press Freedom Day, reports from local and international organisations paint a grim picture of media freedoms in Egypt in 2013
Injury of journalists raises questions on job safety
Press Syndicate calls for silent protest to demonstrate journalistsâ anger at the âdeliberate attacksâ
Photojournalists hold one-day strike
Participants decry dangerous conditions under which they operate
FJP Journalist imprisoned for rallying
Journalist sentenced to hard labour alongside nine others, Press Syndicate calls on Prosecutor General to postpone punishment
Egypt pressed to curb violence against journalists: IPI
International Press Institute report calls for immediate steps to protect media workers from civilian, police abuse
Journalists face military court for allegedly publishing classified files
Amnesty International calls for journalistsâ immediate release; describes them as âprisoners of conscienceâ
Young and behind bars
The Freedoms Committee in the Press Syndicate hosted a press conference on Sunday evening titled Freedom for the Brave. There, eleven youth groups signed a statement condemning the illegal detention of 22,000 people, many of them youth, who were arbitrarily arrested and are facing human rights violations in police stations and prisons. Khalid Abdel Hamid, …
Egypt ranks 159th of 180 countries in 2014 World Press Freedom Index
Egyptâs media underwent a âBrotherisationâ and âSisificationâ in 2013, according to a new report from Reporters Without Borders
NCHR looks into torture reports of revolutionary anniversary detainees
Nation without Torture campaign condemns alleged torture amid Ministry of Interiorâs denial of validity of torture accounts
Op-ed review: The deep state and Samy Anan
Has the deep state returned? Saad Eddin Ibrahim Al Masry Al Youm Newspaper Sociologist Saad Eddin Ibrahim begins his column by discussing the origin of the term âdeep stateâ. He explains that the term is traced back to Turkish sociologists who realised that despite the change in Turkish authority since the 1920s, some bureaucratic practices …
Detentions renewed for journalist arrested on revolution anniversary
Lawyers prevented from attending journalistâs investigation
When Egypt targets journalists, denial remains the name of the game
By Jonathan Moremi On 29 December, 2013, three journalists working for the Al Jazeera English TV channel in Egypt â the Cairo Bureau Chief Mohamed Fahmy, a Canadian-Egyptian, Peter Greste, a renowned Australian journalist, and the Egyptian Producer Baher Mohamed â were arrested in their rooms of the Marriott Hotel in Cairo, their equipment was …
Foreign ministry rejects foreign intervention in Egyptian judiciary
The ministry’s spokesman voiced this rejection in response to questions on reactions to the trial of 20 Al-Jazeera employees
Local and int’l NGOs, public figures call for Alaa Abdel Fatah’s release
The famous blogger has been held ever since heis arrest from his home in a police raid in November
The square root of the Egyptian revolution
On its third anniversary, the Egyptian revolution may have come full circle back to square one, but it will eventually, perhaps decades from now, square the circle and deliver on its root promises of âbread, freedom, dignityâ The word ârevolutionâ perfectly encapsulates the events of the past three years. It is almost as if Egyptians …
Tunisia charter to uphold equality, freedom of opinion
The Islamists also agreed in recent months to drop their insistence on Islam being the main source of legislation, or criminalising âattacks on the sacredâ.
MB legal team files complaint to International Criminal Court
Brotherhood to hold press conference detailing further information
AFTE condemns shutting down Freedom and Justice Party newspaper
The rights group said the “shutdown raises fears on the future of journalism in Egypt”
FJP journalists protest newspaperâs shut-down
Press Syndicate condemns the decision to shut-down the newspaper
Amnesty highlights human rights violations in Egyptâs draft constitution
The human rights watchdog acknowledges current draft is better despite existing violations
Military prosecution releases two photojournalists
Released on bail; journalistsâ cameras remain in custody
Groups announce minimum constitutional demands
Document comes as Constituent Assembly is nearly done with its work
Journalists in Egypt continue to face harassment
Numerous attacks on journalists outside the Police Academy on Monday were reported