Egyptian filmmaker and artist Salma El-Tarzi has been fined 50,000 Egyptian pounds and ordered to pay 20,000 Egyptian pounds in civil compensation after she stood in solidarity with victims of sexual .
Egyptian authorities are cracking down on activists over a call for protests on 11 November - during the COP27 climate summit in the country's city of Sharm el-Sheikh - according to rights defenders.
“Your request has been denied”: this was the extent of the reply that Azza Soliman, director of the Centre for Egyptian Women's Legal Assistance (CEWLA), received to her request to participate in (.)
The bells of the church of the small island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni in the Venice lagoon rang out to announce that a new Aurora prize laureate had been awarded the one million dollars to continue…
US Senator Patrick Leahy has blocked $75 million of aid to Egypt over its failure to make progress on human rights reform particularly the release of 60,000 political prisoners. The annual military.