Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/timep-brief-press-freedom-in-egypt/ The Egyptian government uses policies ranging from harassment and imprisonment of individual journalists to media blackouts and channel closures to stifle freedom of the press. In 2016, Egypt had 25 journalists in prison and was ranked as the...
Learn MoreSource: Council On Foreign Relations Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/report/united-states-assistance-egypt-0 Elliott Abrams testified before the Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations. He gave his assessment of the security side of the U.S.-Egypt aid relationship and suggested that the United States...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/special-briefing-leaked-video-of-egyptian-military-servicemen-extrajudicial-killings-of-civilians/ This briefing was updated on April 26, 2017. Initial reports described the uniformed men in the video as members of the Egyptian Armed Forces, but later reports made it clear that...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/special-briefing-palm-sunday-bombings/ Snapshot: Twin bombs at Coptic Orthodox cathedrals in Alexandria and Tanta exploded on Palm Sunday, April 9, 2017, killing 47 and injuring up to 113. The Islamic State in Egypt claimed the attack, which occurred less than five months after...
Learn MoreSource: Egyptian Institute For Studies Author(s): Unknown Original Link: http://en.eipss-eg.org/security-cooperation-agreement-between-egypt-and-germany/ The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany And the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt, hereinafter referred to as the “Contracting Parties”, Desiring to further consolidate and develop the friendly relations between the Federal...
Learn MoreSource: Doha Institute- Arab Centre For Research And Policy Studies Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://www.dohainstitute.org/en/PoliticalStudies/Pages/The_April_2017_Attacks_on_Egyptian_Churches_ISIL_Victimizes_an_Egyptian_Religious_Community.aspx Introduction A series of coordinated terrorist attacks struck Coptic Orthodox churches across Egypt on April 9, celebrated as Palm Sunday...
Learn MoreSource: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Unknown Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=19885&lang=en The mob-sexual assault of a university student in the early hours of Friday 31 March 2017 in the Qawmia area of the city of Zagazig, Sharkia governorate, tragically corroborates the persistence and prevalence of sexual violence against women in the Egyptian public...
Learn MoreSource: Egyptian Institute For Studies Author(s): Unknown Original Link: http://en.eipss-eg.org/egypt-the-struggles-of-the-sisi-regime/ Snapshot: More than three years after General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi rose to power in Egypt, the Egyptian regime still faces acute problems. Some of these problems are fundamental and have plagued Egypt for many years, and some have worsened in recent years in...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://timep.org/uncategorized/expert-qa-on-egypts-bread-protests/ On Tuesday March 7, protests broke out across Egypt in response to a rumored proposal from Egypt’s supply minister, Ali Meselhi, a Mubarak-era figure that was appointed in a cabinet reshuffle this February. Meselhi’s proposal would have...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/special-briefing-killings-in-arish-rising-sectarianism-in-sinai/ INTRODUCTION In the last four weeks, seven Christians have been killed in the city of Arish in North Sinai, changing the nature of violence in Sinai that has recently found a home in and around Arish, North Sinai’s...
Learn MoreSource: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Unknown Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=19894&lang=en In meetings with British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and EU Human Rights Envoy Stavros Lambrinidis; Mohamed Zaree, CIHRS Egypt Programme director emphasized that respect for human rights and justice is the only way to contain terrorism and promote long-term stability...
Learn MoreSource: Human Rights Watch Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://www.hrw.org/report/2016/09/28/we-are-tombs/abuses-egypts-scorpion-prison Summary: “It was designed so that those who go in don’t come out again unless dead. It was designed for political prisoners.” –Ibrahim Abd al-Ghaffar, former warden, during a television interview in 2012 Since July 2013, when Egypt’s military, led by...
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