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Items by Rania Mostafa
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On moving the Syrian file to Riyadh
The UN envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen, is conducting consultations regarding moving the Constitutional Committee’s meetings from Geneva to Riyadh, after Moscow rejected his invitation to hold the ninth round in Switzerland, considering it “not neutral” regarding the Russian war on Ukraine, and its objection to holding it in...
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The ICJ and Israel’s military offensive against Gaza
South Africa’s lawsuit against the occupation state of Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over its violations in Gaza of its obligations under the Genocide Convention requested the court to outline measures that would protect the Palestinians from further and irreparable harm and ensure Israel’s compliance with...
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As Egypt’s election looms, the deep state can’t afford to ignore the largest political faction
Since the 2013 coup against the first elected president, Egypt has been living through political absurdity that cannot even be called satire. It is little more than stand-up by a comedian who lacks presence and whose jokes fall flat. The regime of Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi is basically a Stalinist phase...
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Egypt and its BRICS membership
With the end of World War II, the eras of conflicting multipolarities over colonial supremacy ended in the traditional form, and the occupation took on a more elegant appearance represented in economic domination, in an attempt to avoid falling into the bottomless well of a third world war. Political domination...
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Sisi and International Women's Day
Since Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi staged a coup against the legitimate President, Mohamed Morsi, he has been promoting himself in the media as an advocate for women, speaking to women on their international day with respect and appreciation. However, the truth is that, under his rule, Egyptian women have been suffering...
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12 years after the revolution, Egypt is no better than Syria and Iraq
The Mubarak regime was the most stable of the four military regimes that have ruled Egypt in recent times. The regime witnessed no violent demonstrations thanks to the iron grip that Mubarak maintained for 30 years. He surrounded himself with an elite of political, economic and media veterans to...
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New death sentences in Egypt demand us to seek clemency for the accused
Two weeks ago, the Court of Cassation in Egypt upheld the death sentences handed down to 12 defendants in the Rabaa Al-Adawiya protest dispersal case. The court reduced the sentences of 31 others from death to a life sentence. I have written before about death sentences in Egypt, and how...
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Did the Muslim Brotherhood fail politically during the Egyptian revolution?
During the course of the brief — just one year — Egyptian government led by President Mohamed Morsi, the opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood accused the movement of failure. Demands were made for it to admit its mistakes, conduct reviews, apologise and then disappear from the political scene altogether. Did...
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The harvest of the Arab Spring revolutions
The Arab Spring revolutions ended where they began. They set out to fight dictatorships, scored some victories and were then cannibalised by hypocrites. After news presenters spoke about revolutions using appropriate terminology, they started to say that coup-led regimes faced civil wars and terrorists. Revolutionaries became outlaws involved in acts...
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Al-Sisi’s Egypt is a land without justice
As often happens with military coups, the leader of the 2013 coup in Egypt, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, sent the heads of the elected regime and its supporters to the gallows. From the very first moment, he passed laws targeting citizens merely on suspicion of sympathy towards the former government...
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On 30 June, 2013, democracy was killed in Egypt
On the seventh anniversary of the military coup that ousted democratically-elected President Mohamed Morsi (1951-2019) in Egypt, it is worth considering that the coup leader, General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, actually paved the way for his takeover with a number of other, perhaps less noticeable coups and related events which...
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Female prisoners in Sisi’s jails
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has revealed that five Egyptian women’s prisons “neither abide by the minimum standards of human life nor meet the minimum conditions for the treatment of prisoners.” They also stated that the prisons are not subject to accountability. The Women Against the Coup movement has...
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Corona and Egypt's detainees
Due to the spread of the coronavirus, the voices of human rights organisations and political activists are growing louder, calling on the families of the prisoners to continuously send telegraphs to the Public Prosecutor to demand the release of the detainees in Egypt’s 68 prisons, in addition to the...
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Is the Egyptian regime trying to kill Osama Morsi?
Abdullah Morsi’s last request to human rights lawyers was to continue denouncing the conditions of his brother Osama’s detention, and the abuses that he was being subjected to. The youngest son of the late Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, Abdullah died last September following a sudden heart attack aged just...
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The difference between Morsi and Mubarak’s funerals
The contrasting treatment of the coup-led Egyptian military regime between two presidents necessitated an essential comparison. Death: The deposed Hosni Mubarak died on February 25, 2020, at the Al-Galaa Military Hospital, at the age of 91, 30 years of which was spent in office, after surgery to remove part of his...
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Will Mohamed Ali’s document bring change to Egypt?
On 28 December, contractor Mohamed Ali (or son of the army, as he calls himself), released a document, which he said the entire spectrum of the Egyptian political opposition in the diaspora had participated in formulating. Some supported the document while others rejected it, but they all supported his...
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Playing with legitimacy
There is a great deal of confusion in public understanding of the term “legitimacy” in Egypt, so much so that even those who are committed to it are unable to distinguish between defending the legitimacy of the late President Mohamed Morsi against whom a coup was staged, and the...
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Mohamed Ali, the man from Egypt’s operations room
Mohamed Ali, 45 years old, is an amateur actor whose company was involved in the Egyptian army’s contracting investments for 15 years until a dispute arouse over a few million dollars. This resulted in him flying to Spain, taking with him what was left of his wealth, to expose...
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Morsi’s death was probably an ‘arbitrary assassination with the consent of the state’
A statement signed by Agnes Kalamar, the UN Special Rapporteur on Arbitrary Executions, confirmed that Egypt’s late President Mohamed Morsi, 67, was held in brutal conditions in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day; was forced to sleep on a concrete floor; and was denied treatment for diabetes and...
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Why don’t the Egyptian people revolt?
The civilian opposition elites abroad, backed by groups in the community with an Islamic background, complain about the flatness and stagnation of the Egyptian people, and their unwillingness to change their bitter reality. Some intellectuals have begun searching in history for proof of their foolishness, sometimes twisting the facts...
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Is the answer Tunisia?
Tunisia was the first answer to the question “for how long?” Everyone was witnessing the manifestations of injustice and corruption with a fit of hidden anger, until the Jasmine Revolution came to light, followed by several after-effects that created a long-awaited Arab spring. But, was Tunisia the only answer...