Cross posted from Felix Arabia I did not expect that the very same experience would be repeated after five years. After a revolution in which we have ousted the tyrant, I go back to jail? The memories of being incarcerated have returned, all the...
Sahar Maher, human rights activist and a member of the Free Maikel campaign, has told Index that authorities are transferring Maikel Nabil to a "mental hospital", where he would be "put under watch for 45 days to make sure his mental situation is...
Maikel Nabil Sanad is today entering his 50th day of hunger strike. The Egyptian blogger has been abstaining from food since 23 August in protest of a three-year sentence handed to him by a military court on charges of "insulting the armed forces"...
Several Egyptian writers and journalists published blank columns in the country's newspapers, in protest against the "military interference" of the press. A number of independent writers, including Belal Fadl, Naglaa Bedir and Tarek...
It's Maikel Nabil Sanad's 26th birthday but he is in no celebratory mood. When I arrive at El Marg prison north of Cairo during visiting hours on Saturday 1 October, I can barely hide my shock at seeing his bony physique. Maikel is wearing a...
Egypt’s post-revolutionary honeymoon appears to be over. The country’s euphoria and pride at the historic public uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak has given way to a summer of rising pessimism. Relations have deteriorated between...
The Cairo offices of Al-Jazeera Mubasher (Direct), an affiliate of the Qatari-based Al-Jazeera International news network, were ransacked by Egyptian security forces early this week. In a raid on the channel reminiscent of an earlier raid on...
The world has been watching with bated breath as a third Arab authoritarian regime collapses. Crowds of jubilant Libyans continue to throng the capital's Green Square to celebrate the end of Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year reign of tyranny and...
Egypt's ruling military council decided on 18 August to drop charges against high-profile activists Asmaa Mahfouz and Louai Nagati. The two had been charged with "insulting" and "defaming" the military after posting their personal views (which were...
Six months after tens of thousands of opposition activists staged peaceful protests in Tahrir Square forcing longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak to step down, the Egyptian revolution finds itself at a "dangerous curve". The demands made by the...