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Mother of jailed British-Egyptian activist hospitalised after 242 days on hunger strike

Laila Soueif continues protest against detention of Alaa Abd el-Fattah in Cairo

The mother of the imprisoned British-Egyptian human rights activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has has been admitted to hospital…

3 days ago

Former ambassador calls on UK to advise citizens against travel to Egypt

John Casson says Cairo ‘fobbing us off’ by refusing to release British-Egyptian national Alaa Abd el-Fattah

The former British ambassador to Egypt, John Casson, has urged the UK to advise its citizens…

4 days ago

Egypt illegally detaining Alaa Abd el-Fattah, UN investigators find

Report says British-Egyptian writer held for expressing political views and should be released without delay

The Britsh-Egyptian human rights activist and writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah is being illegally …

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I left behind an authoritarian state to move to the US. Now I see my new home falling to the same dark forces | Mona Eltahawy

Coming from Egypt, I know a dictatorship when I see one. The same can’t be said for the white voters who brought Trump to power

“What’s he done now?” My parents live in Cairo and I’m in New York City.…

43 days ago

Animal lover who went viral for punching a man who was beating a donkey says she is now getting DEATH THREATS but insists: 'I would do it again - I will not let an innocent animal be harmed'

Dutch expat Joke Van der Post was filmed attacking the animal's handler after she saw him repeatedly lashing it while it stood tethered to a wall on the outskirts of Cairo.

An Israeli bomb took a teen’s arm in Gaza. She’s healing with a family in Philadelphia

Tasneem Sharif Abbas, 16, flew with her sister to the US, where doctors awaited and volunteers cheered their arrival

Dozens of people across the world were in non-stop communication for several months…

45 days ago

The Correspondent review – Richard Roxburgh is excellent as jailed journalist Peter Greste

Based on Greste’s account of his time in an Egyptian prison, this is an important story powerfully told

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Latvian-Australian journalist Peter Greste became the…

47 days ago

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