Some of the country’s most prominent revolutionary activists will continue their retrial Sept. 10 after being sentenced to 15 years in jail for breaking the controversial protest law. They weren’t terrorists or armed protesters, yet the current regime, which they…
Stikkord: Egypt
Prominent Egyptian Activist Alaa Abdel Fattah Goes on Hunger Strike
More prisoners in Egypt join hunger strike
Egypt sentences 17 people to long jail terms for protests
Women are at the vanguard of nonviolence
In the Middle East, elections in troubled times have confirmed the rising tide of nationalist and religious extremism. In Egypt, Amnesty International warned two weeks before the massacre committed last August at Rabaa al-Adawiyya square by the security forces that…