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Egypt creates new human rights watchdog – to protect itself

By Hamza Hendawi – AP –  Egypt has created a new high-powered human rights watchdog agency, but its primary mission isn’t to protect Egyptians from violations. Instead, the [...]

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Egypt: Unprecedented crackdown on freedom of expression under al-Sisi turns Egypt into open-air prison

By Amnesty International – The crackdown on freedom of expression under Egyptian President Abdelfattah al-Sisi has reached alarming new levels unparalleled in Egypt’s recent history, [...]

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La comunitat copta, fora de joc a Egipte

By Marc Español – Directa –  Era jornada de proves al camp de futbol del club egipci Petrojet, establert a la ciutat portuària de Suez. Mina Samir, un jove de 17 anys, evoca [...]

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Egypt military court sentences poet to prison for insulting army

By Reuters –  An Egyptian military court sentenced a poet to three years in prison on Tuesday for publishing false news and insulting the military after he gained publicity for writing a [...]

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Resist or flee: NGOs respond to Egypt’s crackdown

By Khaled Mansour – Open Global Rights Between 2014 and early 2018, the Egyptian government cracked down with unprecedented fury on civil society organizations (CSOs). Previous [...]

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Administration should use its leverage to get Egypt to improve its human rights record

By Brian Dooley – The Hill –  Last August, the State Department withheld $195 million in Foreign Military Financing (FMF) from Egypt. Rex Tillerson, then [...]

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Global Metric of Muslim Beliefs and Practices Reveals Intolerance to Non-Muslims

By William DiPuccio – Frontpage Magazine –  Surveys conducted by Pew Research have revealed a great deal about Muslim beliefs and practices across the globe. But they fall short of [...]

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History Lessons from Years Under Islamism

By Majid Rafizadeh – Gatestone Institute –  My father’s generation in Iran lived in an environment in which the Islamist party of the country’s clergy cunningly depicted [...]

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Rep. Hill’s Op-ed: Doing the right thing for Persecuted Coptic Christians

By Representative French Hill – For Immediate Release January 17, 2018 Egypt is one of the United States’ strongest allies in a region filled with chaotic states. They have the largest [...]

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Egypt’s human rights move dismissed as ploy to win back US aid

By World Watch Monitor –  Efforts by the Egyptian government to improve its record on human rights are aimed primarily at persuading the US government to reinstate its generous aid package, [...]