Tag: Freedom

Freedom of expression in Egypt in 2016: an overview 

AFTE highlights freedom challenges, experts provide their evaluation

Amira El-Fekki Amira El-Fekki

Young directors vie for Max Ophüls Prize with films on freedom, migration and women

Hot-button topics like migrations and women's issues are on the lineup at…

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Egypt respects promoters of extremism and fights terrorists: Fatima Naoot

The state should kick-start a paradigm shift by utilising religious rhetoric and…

Taha Sakr Taha Sakr

Over 300 signatures in solidarity statement with syndicates, workers

NGOs, political parties, and public figures decried oppression on press, doctors syndicates…

Amira El-Fekki Amira El-Fekki

NGO draft law draws more criticism

‘Monitoring finances differs from interfering in NGO activities,’ says former social solidarity…

Amira El-Fekki Amira El-Fekki

Violations against freedoms reach highest levels under Al-Sisi rule: AFTE

Hostility between authorities, press has reached unprecedented levels so far in 2016,…

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Release of Mahienour El-Massry and Youssef Shaaban delayed

The two activists have finished their prison term, and their families condemn…

Amira El-Fekki Amira El-Fekki

Alaa al-Aswany: ‘I write to defend freedom, to defend democracy’

Best-selling novelist Alaa al-Aswany one of the main protagonists in the 2011…

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