Human rights in focus: A series of conversations

Tuesday, April 14, 2015 – 13:42 By: Mai Shams El-Din, Mada Masr اقرأها بالعربية This is an introduction to a series of interviews by Mada Masr with human rights workers in Egypt that attempts to situate the struggle for rights within the context of a larger movement and the contest over political space. Many human rights workers have felt targeted by the

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On Hunger Strike

Omar Robert Hamilton London Review of Books Vol. 36 No 19 · 9 October 2014 page 30 | 1717 words After the shock and awe tactics of the Rabaa massacre last summer, when Egypt’s military regime murdered around a thousand supporters of the deposed president, Mohamed Morsi, the rolling counter-revolution has played out mostly within the justice system, between police stations,

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On Alaa’s hunger strike

By Omar Robert Hamilton Wednesday, August 20, 2014 – 07:33 After three spells of imprisonment since the start of the revolution, Alaa Abd El Fattah has declared that he is starting a hunger strike. Alaa is one of 25 people who were sentenced to 15 years in prison for attending/organizing a protest in November. A protest in which a policeman who

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