Academic Freedom Under Fire: Egyptian Government Jails Ahmed Tohamy
Ahmed Tohamy Abdel Hay has been an assistant professor of comparative politics at Alexandria University's Faculty of Economic Studies and...
Read moreAhmed Tohamy Abdel Hay has been an assistant professor of comparative politics at Alexandria University's Faculty of Economic Studies and...
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Haitham Mohamedain is a labor activist and human rights lawyer who advocates for independent and worker-led trade unions. He has...
Khaled Dawoud is an Egyptian journalist and politician who works as the Assistant Editor-in-Chief of Al-Ahram Weekly and an adjunct...
Solafa Magdy Sallam is a freelance reporter and human rights activist whose work focuses on marginalized and discriminated groups in...
Photos of Ayman Hadhoud's body that were taken after his death in state custody and obtained by Democracy for the...
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The forced disappearance and unexplained death of Ayman Hadhoud shows the near complete lack of accountability for Egyptian police and...
(Washington D.C., February 10, 2021) – Ed Royce, a lobbyist for Egypt and Saudi Arabia at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck,...
(Washington D.C., February 2, 2022) – The Egyptian government's announcement of a broad pardon of certain categories of prisoners excludes...
Major General Tarek Marzouk is the Assistant Minister of Interior for Prisons, commonly referred to as the Head of Prisons...
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Prosecutor Yehia Omar Marwan. عربيProsecutor Yehia Omar Marwan participated in the Egyptian authorities' crushing of independent voices by throwing peaceful...
Judge Rafaat Zaki Mahmoud Hussein participated in the Egyptian authorities' crushing of independent voices by keeping a wife-and-husband team of...
Prosecutor Hussein Amer participated in the Egyptian authorities' crushing of peaceful activists and journalists by keeping them in extended pretrial...
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