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Demonstrations in Egypt: arrests, social media blockage as a response
Published at
27.09.2019
Country
Egypt
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- excessive force
- internet restriction
- censorship
- travel ban
- protestor(s) detained
- protest

Egypt parliament approved new draft NGO law - a continuation of state crack down on CSOs
Published at
08.08.2019
Country
Egypt
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- restrictive law

Authoritarian constitutional amendments tighten Egypt’s iron grip on civic space
Published at
09.05.2019
Country
Egypt
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- surveillance
- censorship
- internet restriction
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- LGBTI
- harassment
- protestor(s) detained

UN experts alarmed over systematic targeting of civil society
Published at
06.11.2018
Country
Egypt
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- censorship
- LGBTI
- women
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- enforced disappearance
- internet restriction
- torture/ill-treatment

New cybercrime law: an assault on freedom of expression
Published at
17.07.2018
Country
Egypt
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- women
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- internet restriction
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained

Appeals Court orders retrial in foreign funding case
Published at
15.06.2018
Country
Egypt
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- funding restriction
- HRD prosecuted
- release of HRDs

Civil society stands in solidarity with jailed photojournalist facing death penalty
Published at
24.04.2018
Country
Egypt
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- restrictive law

Increased restrictions as Egyptians go to the polls: A growing gulf between rhetoric and reality
Published at
27.03.2018
Country
Egypt
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- journalist detained
- funding restriction
- women
- CSO closure
- restrictive law
- public vilification

Space for trade unions and workers to organise continues to close in Egypt
Published at
09.02.2018
Country
Egypt
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- labour rights
- restrictive law

CIVICUS Monitor speaks to Egyptian activist banned from traveling
Published at
07.11.2017
Country
Egypt
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- travel ban
- bureaucratic restriction
- harassment
- funding restriction

Environment for civil society in Egypt: “among the darker and more dangerous”
Published at
02.10.2017
Country
Egypt
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- enforced disappearance
- torture/ill-treatment
- women
- restrictive law