protest law
Media freedoms center highlights unconstitutional laws
Egypt
July 29, 2015
Media freedoms center highlights unconstitutional laws
According to HRDO Center for the Support of Digital Expression, an independent media freedoms center, many of the laws enacted by…
Presidential palace demo for prisoners release ends peacefully
Egypt
June 22, 2015
Presidential palace demo for prisoners release ends peacefully
Tens of female activists outside the Ettehadiya Presidential Palace left the area late Sunday after a one-hour protest calling for…
Activists to urge for prisoners’ release outside presidential palace
Egypt
June 17, 2015
Activists to urge for prisoners’ release outside presidential palace
An activist group will hold a women's vigil with lanterns on June 21 outside the Ettehadiya presidential palace to call…
Parties demand quick decision on constitutionality of protest law
Egypt
May 23, 2015
Parties demand quick decision on constitutionality of protest law
Eight political parties representing the Democratic Current have demanded the Supreme Constitutional Court to hasten with deciding on the constitutionality…
16 Brotherhoods sentenced to 3 years in Damietta over protests
Egypt
May 12, 2015
16 Brotherhoods sentenced to 3 years in Damietta over protests
Damietta Criminal Court sentenced on Tuesday 16 supporters of former president Mohamed Morsi and Muslim Brotherhood members to three years in…
12 minors accused of violating protest law released
Egypt
March 2, 2015
12 minors accused of violating protest law released
Twelve minors were acquitted on Monday after being arrested randomly during protests commemorating the revolution’s fourth anniversary, according to a…
Sisi defends protest law, Rabaa dispersal
Egypt
February 8, 2015
Sisi defends protest law, Rabaa dispersal
Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi defended the wide-criticized protest law and the bloody dispersal of the Rabaa al-Adaweya and Nahda…
Rights organizations renew call for revoking protest law
Egypt
January 8, 2015
Rights organizations renew call for revoking protest law
Human rights organizations have renewed their call for the cancellation of Egypt’s law on protests, which opponents view as a…
Minister justifies protest law because it was ‘enacted a century ago’
Egypt
December 16, 2014
Minister justifies protest law because it was ‘enacted a century ago’
Minister of Transitional Justice Ibrahim El-Heneidy has expressed his approval on the protest law arguing, “It was enforced one century ago.”In an interview…
Justice Minister says no intention to change protest law
Egypt
December 9, 2014
Justice Minister says no intention to change protest law
Egypt has no intention to amend the controversial law on protests adopted under the interim authorities that ousted former president…