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In December 2020 Ghada Najibe woke up to a phone call – "the Egyptian government has announced they are stripping you of your nationality", Ghada's friend told her down the...
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‘The state has become a whale that swallows everything it finds and is never satisfied’
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It was an ordinary Monday morning in Jordan when they came for me. At around 11:30am on 15 November, the doorbell rang. I wasn't expecting anyone, but to my...
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On 1 June Abeer Hassan's brother left the house to deliver some cash to a colleague, a short trip around the block that should have taken a maximum of...
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Palestinian photojournalist Mohammed Ateeq was covering the Israeli attacks against worshippers in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque last week when the security forces shot him in the back with...
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Palestinian journalist Alaa Al-Rimawi began a hunger strike after twelve Israeli armed forces raided his home on 21 April, 2021, in Ramallah after midnight, confiscated his mobile phone and...
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In February the Egyptian government tried to sell its draft personal status law on a clause that would see men who did not inform their first wife they were...
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On 20 February 2021 Manar Abouelnaga and her son appeared in front of Egypt's state security prosecution two years after their forcible disappearance. Al-Baraa was just three-years-old. The house...
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Across Palestine, schools are closed to try and stem the spread of the virus, but Al-Maleh Elementary has struggled to offer remote learning, because of the lack of internet and electricity in the village.
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A Palestinian journalist and activist has been detained for the fifth time by the Israeli authorities after being released earlier this year from an eight-month term of administrative detention,...
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On 27 September, Egypt's public prosecution ordered that 79 children detained since the start of the demonstrations be released. All the children were aged between 10 and 15 and...
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When Ibrahim was arrested it was a summer's day in Arish, the capital of North Sinai, and he was wearing a light t-shirt and a pair of jeans. Two...
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The first time Sara Mohani was arrested security forces lined her up against a wall and described her body in intimate detail. "If we find any photo of the...
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Shortly after the profile of a well-known Sinai activist appeared in an Egyptian newspaper, the intelligence services called the journalist who interviewed him: "Why have you published a picture...
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Four years on from his arrest one of Egypt’s child political prisoners Haitham Abdel Rahim recalls 50 days of torture.
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Sanaa Abdelgawad and her daughter Asmaa Beltagi were in front of Rabaa's main stage when security forces advanced on the square. The area was immersed in smoke and Sanaa...
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In 2008 Mariam Ahmed and her family set off east from her homeland Egypt and landed in Saudi Arabia where they became part of the Kingdom's two million strong...
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In March 2015 masked men broke down the door of Khaled Saddouma's house, entered his son's bedroom where he was sleeping and dragged him out of the house without...
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On 9 March Manar Abu Naga was forcibly disappeared from her home in Alexandria along with her husband Omar and their one-year-old son Braa. "One of the neighbours told...
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The family of Abdelrahman Attia have appealed for his death sentence to be suspended after the court issued a final verdict ordering his execution alongside five other Egyptian men,...
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Twenty-four-year old Ayatollah Ashraf was arrested from her home in the Qalyubiyah governorate of Egyptian capital Cairo on 3 October 2018. Egyptian security forces broke into the family's home...
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Khaled Hamdy was arrested on the 27 March 2014 from his home in Egypt. He had been working as a production manager for Egypt 25, a TV channel founded...
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At just 26 years-old, Yousra Badwan is Palestine's youngest female mayor after being elected to the post in the Azzun municipality of the occupied West Bank earlier this year....