#FreeAlaa: Write to your MP to push for release of hunger-striking activist...
Alaa Abdelfattah, a leading figure in the 2011 Egyptian revolution and well-known political activist has been on hunger strike since 2 April. His life is in danger, yet the Egyptian authorities...
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Stand in solidarity with Alaa on 22 June – outside the Foreign Office and online
Image: via FreeAlaa campaign website Family and friends of jailed activist Alaa Abdelfattah, a British citizen who has been jailed unjustly in Cairo by the military regime for nearly 9 years, will...
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‘Don’t be fooled by Sisi’s climate lies’ Egyptian activists warn ahead of...
As Egypt prepares to host the COP27 climate summit in November 2022, Egyptian activists have issued an urgent appeal to the global climate justice movement not to be taken in by the regime’s claims to...
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‘Subject to a climate of repression’– why the CGIL union federation won’t be...
CGIL website The Italian CGIL union federation has announced a boycott of COP27 under the presidency of Egypt in protest at ongoing repression by the Sisi regime and in memory of Italian researcher...
View ArticleBread, oil and guns: the war on Ukraine and the Middle East
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has had profound effects on the Middle East. Irang Bak and Anne Alexander look at how rising food costs and shortages are hurting the poor, while the rich profit from oil...
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Event: COP27 and Human Rights Solidarity with Egyptian Prisoners of Conscience
Major climate organisations in Scotland and Britain are calling for a week of solidarity with Egyptian prisoners of conscience in order to highlight the Sisi regime’s horrific abuses of human rights....
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COP27 toolkit and resources
Our new toolkit of resources on COP27 is now live. More will be added during the countdown to COP27, but you’ll already find links to statements, petitions, prisoner solidarity, a video and social...
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‘COP has produced 3 decades of empty talk’: an interview with Hamza Hamouchene
In response to the UN COP27 climate talks in Egypt 7-18 November Middle East Solidarity magazine is publishing a series of articles previewing a special feature in the next issue on the struggles for...
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Urgent Action Toolkit: Wear white for political prisoners in Egypt –...
COP27 has thrown a spotlight on Egypt’s police state, where under Sisi’s repressive regime tens of thousands of people have been detained, and torture, enforced disappearances and deaths in custody...
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Vigil: Justice for Giulio Regeni, Freedom for Alaa and all Egypt’s political...
25th January is a symbolic day in Egypt’s calendar. On that day in 2011, the Egyptian revolution or Arab Spring began. Alaa Abdelfattah is an icon of that revolution. Because of his outspoken...
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