3 men have been arrested in Egypt for ‘attempting to steal a pharaonic statue’ after they tried to crane lift away a 10-ton statue of Ramesses II in Aswan.
Today, six years after the so-called Facebook revolutions of the Arab Spring, the hopes once placed in the social media have largely vanished. Authoritarian regimes in the region have long since succeeded in taking control of these channels and using them for their own ends. By Niklas Kossow and Ilyas Saliba
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement Monday on the forced disappearance of Hossam Menoufy Mahmoud Sallam by Egyptian security authorities earlier this month. HRW called for authorities to imm.
On 9 March last year, the Egyptian Ministry of the Interior banned prison visits under the pretext of curbing the spread of Covid-19. Three months into the ban, 69-year-old Amira Tawfiq could no longe.