We are hereby documenting the Joint Statement for the Immediate Treatment and Release of the Trade Union Leader Shady Mohamed We, the undersigned political and human rights groups, labor and public figures, are following with great concern the continued pretrial detention of trade union leader Shady Mohamed pending Case No. 1644 of 2024, known as […]

Last week, Germany’s upper house of parliament (Bundesrat) gave a green light to a law that sees the denial of “Israel’s right to exist” as a criminal offense that could cost “culprits” up to five years in prison. Back in April, the Christian Democrat (CDU) Justice Minister and State Prime Minister of the central German […]

By Fares Hakim On the evening of 4 July 2026, Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi appeared before the nation from the imposing seat of the State Strategic Command in the New Administrative Capital. In a single address, he distilled the entire project of his regime. The speech deserves attention not because it offered anything new, but because it […]

By Salama Mansour & Shoukry Samir Halfway between Cairo and Suez, some 60 kilometres from the centre of Cairo, concrete is being poured across a stretch of land measuring 170,000 feddans—an expanse twice the size of Cairo itself, or roughly equal to the historic heart of Greater Cairo, encompassing Cairo, Giza, and Shubra El Kheima. […]

By: Fares Hakim In August 2013, only days after the Rabaa al-Adawiya massacre, when over a thousand Egyptians were killed within the space of a few hours, Rifaat al-Said—the long-time leader of the Tagammu Party and one of the oldest figures of the Egyptian left—made his now infamous declaration: “I love El-Sisi because, on 30 […]