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The Street Is Not Yours: Repression of Bodies and Assemblies in Egypt

July 3, 2025 0Comments 0Reactions

After July 2013, when Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi took control of Egypt’s political scene first as the leader of the military coup and then as president from June 2014 onward, his authoritarian rule has led to widespread human rights violations. These include significant restrictions on freedom of opinion and expression, peaceful assembly, and protest. Through repression…

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Transnational Oppression: Gendered Repression Across Borders

June 23, 2025 0Comments 0Reactions

What does flight from repression look like if repression crosses borders? For the LGBTQ+ individuals and the women of North Africa, refuge is no protection. Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia have made transnational repression a means of state control, taking state violence across their borders by way of legal instruments, surveillance, and propaganda. Governments within them…

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Egypt | In absentia verdict against politician Hisham Kassem reinforces growing pattern of transnational repression targeting exiled dissidents

May 21, 2025 0Comments 0Reactions

The undersigned organizations unequivocally condemn the verdict issued in absentia on 14 May 2025 by the Cairo Economic Misdemeanor Court, sentencing prominent publisher and political dissident Hisham Kassem to six months in prison with labor and ordering him to pay a fine of 20,000 Egyptian pounds. The sentence stems from charges of defamation, slander, and…