U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has overruled congressional restrictions on U.S. military aid tied to Egypt’s dismal human rights record Prioritizing U.S. national security interests over human rights, the Biden administration has approved $235 [ More … ]
The United States will provide security assistance to Egypt despite the repression practiced by the Sisi regime against dissent, says Human Rights Watch. Doing so, the rights watchdog states, the Biden Administration is waiving human [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities have carried out a wave of arrests targeting critics ahead of a pivotal American decision on military aid. This is “seen as a key indicator of how the Biden administration will balance security [ More … ]
U.S. Senate has passed the FY 2024 appropriations act, which would increase human rights conditions on military aid to Egypt, amid its ongoing rights crisis The U.S. Senate appropriators a week ago passed the Fiscal [ More … ]
The role of human rights conditions in U.S. military assistance to Egypt has been explained by a fact sheet issued by POMED. The fact sheet, “Human Rights Conditions on U.S. Military Aid to Egypt Under [ More … ]
More than forty organizations express deep concern about the UAE’S human rights situation and call for concrete improvements ahead of COP28. In a joint statement, the human rights groups have called for major improvements to [ More … ]
In the wake of the Cop27 summit held in Sharm el-Sheikh, repression in Egypt is back but now at full steam, and the world is no longer watching violations. During the UN climate conference (COP27), [ More … ]
EFHR denounces Egyptian authorities’ failure to properly compensate and reintegrate released political prisoners The Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) on Wednesday denounced Egyptian authorities’ failure to properly compensate and reintegrate released political prisoners in [ More … ]
Egypt’s Ministry of Interior says it will start trial operations at 3 new prisons even as the existing prisons continue to be sites of flagrant abuses The Egyptian Ministry of Interior announced Sunday the imminent [ More … ]
As China attempts to assert its geopolitical clout with Riyadh, US senators push for addressing human rights concerns in Saudi Arabia A bipartisan pair of US senators introduced a resolution yesterday (Wednesday, 15 March) that [ More … ]
A special Egyptian court on Sunday gave 30 members of the Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) sentences ranging from five-year to life imprisonment, according to Islam Salama, a lawyer from the Egyptian Initiative [ More … ]
The United Nations Human Rights Committee will hold a two-day session (today and tomorrow) to examine the Egyptian government’s implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which Egypt ratified in 1982 [ More … ]
The United States will continue to encourage Egypt to take steps on human rights, including freeing more political prisoners and guaranteeing freedom of expression, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a visit to [ More … ]
The American FY 2023 appropriations bill has been released, with more conditions placed on the military aid for Egypt, as the Congress has again strengthened the aid conditions. The U. S. Fiscal Year 2023 Appropriations [ More … ]
The resolution adopted by the European Parliament’s plenary vote highlights the lack of improvement in Egypt’s dire human rights situation and calls for strong measures to address human rights crisis in Egypt. The European Parliament [ More … ]
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