While human rights groups condemn Sisi’s regime, he receives European arms deals, American aid, and even France’s greatest honor, writes Maged Mandour.
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‘European values’
Germany continues to support Arab dictators and their wars: The German government approved a total of €1.16 billion ($1.41 billion) in arms exports during 2020 to countries involved in both the Yemen and Libya conflicts, reported news agency dpa citing the country’s Economy Ministry. Germany, by December 17, had signed off on permissions to export
Read on »VIDEO – 2 Feb: Tahrir revolutionaries defend the square ٢ فبراير: الثوار يدافعون عن الميدان
Army and Police, two faces of the same coin
I was pleased to see Field Marshall Tantawi speaking today. I had seriously started thinking he’s dead, and what we see on TV was some animation. Talking to fresh pigs graduating from the police academy (formerly known as Mubarak’s Security Academy): “We (the army) descended to the streets on 28 January to help the police.”
Read on »The Fascist
Egypt’s military dictator Field Marshall Tantawi salutes the police force, denounces labor strikes, calling on the people to step up production and suspend any protests… How more fascist can one sound?
Read on »VIDEO – So this is Essam Sharaf’s govt آدي حكومة عصام شرف
Chatting with a protester, who was denouncing PM Essam Sharaf and the police, following rounds of tear gas fired at us, outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo…
Read on »VIDEO – Egyptian Intifada انتفاضة ضد الوجود الصهيوني بمصر
Video taken by Mostafa, of the clashes outside Israel’s embassy last night…
Read on »VIDEO – Besieging Israel’s embassy in Cairo مازهقناش مازهقناش دم إخواتنا مش ببلاش
A video I took with my mobile phone, of protesters besieging Israel’s embassy in Cairo, chanting in support of the Palestinian people, on Nakba Day.
Read on »UK firm offered spying software to Egyptian SS
Gamma International’s Finfisher program would have enabled government spies to monitor activists and censor websites, according to documents obtained by activists after storming State Security Police headquarters in Nasr City: One of the papers, in English and headed Finfisher Proposal: Commercial Offer, contained an offer dated 29 June 2010 to provide “FinSpy” software, hardware, installation
Read on »Egypt: The revolution will not be exported
Essam Sharaf, our “revolutionary prime minister,” is flying out on Monday to meet the Arab Gulf monarchs, in a bid to attract foreign investments, and to “assure them the January revolution was a purely Egyptian affair and will not be exported to other countries.” Sharaf, shame on you. Our revolution should extend its hands to
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