News & Reports

By The New York Times — Within days of each other, the United States and Egypt announced moves this week that, for the first time in years, would put human rights on the agenda in Egypt, a [...]

By Mada Masr – After 19 months in remand detention, researcher Patrick George Zaki was referred on September 13 to trial before an emergency court on charges of “spreading false news at [...]

By POLITICO – The Biden administration has decided it will hold back some — but not most — of $300 million in conditioned military aid to Egypt over human rights concerns, a U.S. official [...]

By The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights Press Release The undersigned organisations condemn the decision of the State Security Supreme Prosecution (SSSP) to indict Patrick Zaki, the [...]

House Media Center – WASHINGTON – Today (Sept., 9), Congressman Lieu led a letter with Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) and nine Members of Congress urging the Biden-Harris [...]

By: The Wall Street Journal – The Biden Administration and other democracies have been beseeching the triumphant Taliban not to behave like they did when they last ran Afghanistan before [...]

By Watani – No permit to build a protection wall! – A higher than normal Nile flood this summer has inundated the basements of many buildings erected on the Nile bank in Egypt. Among [...]

By Amnesty International – Responding to the news that an Egyptian judge has dropped an investigation into at least six human rights defenders and NGO workers, lifted travel bans against [...]

By Watani – The 35-year-old Kathleen Panel has been arrested by the police in Surrey, Vancouver, BC, and charged with two counts of arson against the Coptic Orthodox St George Church in [...]

By Michael Girgis – Watani A call has been sent out on social media for donations to rebuild the Coptic Orthodox church of St George in Surrey, Vancouver, BC. The church had been burnt down [...]