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Items by Mahmoud Hassan
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Egypt: Who can run against Sisi in the 2024 presidential elections?
The question that occupies the minds of the Egyptian people, amid a difficult living environment, a record rise in prices and a continuous collapse in the value of the local currency, coinciding with the imminent end of the second term of the current President, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, and the holding…
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Egypt’s ‘fear books’ help to facilitate more human rights violations
When you sign a visitors’ or similar book to confirm your presence at a place, it is not usual for you to do so knowing that you may not return to your home. In Egypt, though, the people controlling the “fear books” in police cells and prisons want to keep…
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‘Refrigerator’: a nightmare which haunts detainees in Egypt
“Refrigerator” is a term used to describe small rooms inside the Egyptian police stations affiliated with the Egyptian National Security Agency (an internal intelligence agency), which hosts many detainees in inhumane conditions, without being subject to any judicial or legal oversight. The “refrigerator” term bears a clear connotation to the…