Many human rights organisations, political activists and reports point out unambiguously that the people of Egypt have lived under a brutal police state since the 2013 military coup. From Human Rights Watch to the Arab Centre in Washington DC, it has been made crystal clear that Egypt has become a …

Jan. 25 marks 11 years to the day when thousands of Egyptians marched to Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square to demand “Bread, Freedom and Social Justice!” Little did the anti-government protesters know then that it was to be the start of a mass uprising that 18 days later would lead to …

The director of the Arab Network for Human Rights has told The New Arab’s Arabic language service that his organisation has suspended its activities due to an unprecedented increase in the pace of repression in Egypt.

Egypt has recently freed several prominent political detainees, raising hopes for an easing of a sweeping crackdown on dissent. But for rights activists, repression remains “systematic” and there is no relaxation in sight.

The arrest of an Egyptian opposition activist in the city of Luxor after his plane was forced to undertake an emergency landing while en route from Sudan to Turkey has shocked human rights advocates in the country.

Human Rights Watch has criticised US President Joe Biden and other western leaders over their “weak” defences of democracy and human rights, saying their continued support of Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Israel contradicted their stated foreign policy goals.

Prominent Egyptian women’s rights activist Amal Fathy has been sentenced to a year in prison for posting a video on Facebook in which she criticised authorities’ failure to protect women from sexual harassment.

A video of an Egyptian mother-of-three dancing that went viral online prompting her husband to divorce her and her employers to sack her has reignited fierce debates over women’s rights.

Egypt’s superficial attempts to create an impression of human rights progress failed to disguise the government’s brutal repression of all manner of dissent in 2021, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2022.

One of the few remaining human rights groups in Egypt announced on Monday that it was suspending operations.