In the tenth issue of \u201cDeleted Lines,\u201d we track a mixed picture of human rights, social and political developments reflecting tensions between citizens and authorities. Arrests and investigations of activists, journalists and lawyers accompanied international demands to end arbitrary detention and respect human rights, while deaths continued in prisons and police stations.<\/p>\n
Labour protests, poverty and economic practices also dominated: construction workers stand on scaffolding without legal protection, citizens confront official statistics at odds with daily life, and Senate elections witnessed coercive measures and widespread nonparticipation.<\/p>\n
On 27 August, State Security Prosecution released<\/a> EIPR research director Karim Ennarah and activists Ahmed Khalifa and Nael Hassan in Supreme State Security Case No. 6592 of 2025 on personal or residence guarantees.<\/p>\n Ennarah was held for over twelve hours after being stopped on the North Coast. His family reported blindfolding and restraint before transfer to New Cairo. Prosecutors accused him of joining a terrorist group and broadcasting false news over a single Facebook repost from 2023 before releasing him.<\/p>\n Khalifa and Hassan appeared that evening after dawn arrests at homes in Alexandria and Ismailia. Similar charges included promoting an unlawfully established group and misuse of social media.<\/p>\n This was EIPR\u2019s fifth criminal confrontation in four years. Khalifa\u2019s prolonged pretrial detention had disrupted university study; Hassan was previously arrested in 2017 for opposing the Tiran and Sanafir agreement.<\/p>\n Al-Shehab Center for Human Rights<\/a> published an appeal by former presidential chief of staff Ambassador Mohamed Refaa El-Tahtawy, held in Badr (3), Sector (2). He and 58 others had been on hunger strike for more than 45 days against grave violations and deprivation of basic rights.<\/p>\n He said the Interior Ministry denied strikes or suicide attempts, although attempts exceeded sixteen, some in court before judges. Some strikers entered intensive care after deteriorating health.<\/p>\n He sought an international fact-finding committee to visit Sector (2) and report to the UN human rights office in Geneva, consistent with Egypt\u2019s obligations. He proposed Mohamed ElBaradei as chair, or Awn Al-Khasawneh, with Shoukry Fouad and George Ishak as members, unaware through prisoners\u2019 isolation that the latter two had died years earlier.<\/p>\n Egyptian rights organisations including the Egyptian Network for Human Rights confirmed recycling<\/a> of ten political prisoners into Supreme State Security Case No. 2369 of 2023, including poet Galal El-Behairy and journalist Wael Abdel Ghany. The increasingly common practice re-detains people who completed sentences or were acquitted through new cases with nearly identical false-news or banned-group allegations.<\/p>\n El-Behairy completed three years for insulting the military through a satirical poem and should have been released in July 2021. New cases kept him detained since March 2018, now in his eighth year. He faced fresh State Security questioning on 19 August 2025. Abdel Ghany was acquitted in December 2023 after a September arrest, then included in another case on the same charges.<\/p>\n The list also included Ahmed Omara of Gharbia, Ragab El-Geddawy of Kafr El-Sheikh, Ahmed Bakr of Giza, Mohamed El-Yasergy, El-Sayed Salem and Adel Bidary of Sharqia, and two unnamed people.<\/p>\n Organisations described violations of liberty, personal security, constitutional and fair-trial safeguards intended to prolong pretrial detention and punish opponents and rights defenders.<\/p>\n Recommended reading: \u201cIn the Depths of the Pit\u201d: Enforced Disappearances Continue in Sinai<\/a><\/p>\n On Tuesday, 26 August 2025, the UN human rights office urged an end to prolonged arbitrary imprisonment of opponents and government critics, including after sentences or maximum pretrial periods had expired, demanding immediate release of all held beyond these limits.<\/p>\n The High Commissioner\u2019s statement<\/a> cited Galal El-Behairy, arrested at Cairo Airport on 3 March 2018 after a complaint alleging insult of the president. It also cited Alaa Abdel Fattah, Hoda Abdel Moneim, 66, formerly of the National Council for Human Rights, and lawyer Ibrahim Metwally Hegazy, founder of the Association of Families of the Forcibly Disappeared.<\/p>\n Abdel Moneim was arrested in November 2018 and forcibly held for 21 days before questioning in the \u201cCoordination\u201d case.<\/p>\n An Emergency State Security Criminal Court sentenced her to five years of rigorous imprisonment followed by five years\u2019 police supervision. Charges involved membership of a banned group, establishing a rights entity and financial support. Violations included denied visits and terrorism listing.<\/p>\n The office said these practices breach international obligations prohibiting enforced disappearance and arbitrary detention, renewing demands for legality and release after completed sentences or exceeded detention limits.<\/p>\n On Monday, 25 August, Badr Criminal Court\u2019s Second Circuit renewed detention<\/a> in State Security cases for Ahmed Orabi, Sherif El-Rouby and cartoonist Ashraf Omar without presenting them despite EIPR lawyers\u2019 requests for video attendance from 10th of Ramadan Prison 6.<\/p>\n Detention was extended 45 days without attendance or hearing their defence, ignoring that Orabi and El-Rouby exceeded Criminal Procedure Code Article 143\u2019s maximum period.<\/p>\n The Second Terrorism Circuit at Badr acquitted all defendants in Case No. 4007 of 2025, 6th of October First Criminal Court, registered as No. 637 of 2025, October General, and known as Supreme State Security No. 145 of 2023.<\/p>\n According to the commission<\/a>, six defendants arrested at different times were forcibly disappeared for over three and a half years before appearing before State Security Prosecution and being tried. Charges included leading or joining a terrorist group and possessing publications. All were acquitted after months of hearings.<\/p>\n On Monday, 4 August 2025, State Security Prosecution summoned Mada Masr editor-in-chief Lina Attalah in Case No. 6182 of 2025, two days after an investigation into detention and violations in Badr 3, including a leaked letter attributed to former Alexandria deputy governor Hassan El-Brince.<\/p>\n The Interior Ministry called the letter fabricated and threatened legal action against promoters, raising fears of security and judicial tools silencing investigations. Prosecutors refused syndicate representative Eman Auf\u2019s attendance, viewed as violating professional representation and troubling restrictions on unions protecting journalists.<\/p>\n Human rights organisations<\/a> demanded immediate dismissal of all cases against Attalah and Mada Masr journalists, no new prosecutions and an end to State Security and counterterrorism tools in journalism cases.<\/p>\n They also sought unblocking of Zawia3, Mada Masr and Al Manassa, free access to independent media, unconditional release of journalists detained for work, review of cases against international standards, an end to terrorism listing of overseas journalists and transnational repression, and professional unions\u2019 ability to protect journalists and independence.<\/p>\n Human rights organisations<\/a> expressed grave concern after more than two hundred days of disappearance of Egyptian-Turkish poet and dissident Abdel Rahman Youssef Al-Qaradawi. Arrested in Lebanon on 28 December 2024 and forcibly transferred to the UAE on 8 January 2025, his transfer violated non-refoulement and international obligations.<\/p>\n The Emirati request alleged false news and disturbing public security after criticism of Egypt, the UAE and Saudi Arabia. His last family contact was in March 2025 in an unofficial Abu Dhabi facility. Groups demanded disclosure, family and lawyer contact, and Lebanese accountability for unlawful transfer.<\/p>\n State Security Prosecution released Mahienour El-Massry on EGP 50,000 bail, around USD 1,000, in Case No. 6322 of 2025 after accusations<\/a> of broadcasting false news, information and rumours inside and outside Egypt that could harm public interest and weaken state prestige.<\/p>\n Questioning lasted more than six hours. Prosecutors said citizens from different governorates filed thirteen complaints and security inquiries confirmed allegations centred on her use of social media to criticise state institutions and absence of justice.<\/p>\n Since 2019, she has faced cases 488 and 855 before release in 2021. Arrested again with feminists at a Palestine and Sudan solidarity protest in April 2024, she was bailed in Case 1567. Her family recently received notice of a fourth case since 2019 and another summons.<\/p>\n On 7 August, Rami Abdel Moneim Ali Mostafa was released after continued detention at El-Badrasheen despite a late-July pardon for urgent heart-related health reasons, with transfer to Helwan Police Station to complete procedures, according to lawyer Ahmed Fouad Abu Heneish.<\/p>\n Abu Heneish said colleagues reported an unspecified period held<\/a> after pardon, violating law and endangering his life. Lawyers described repeated delays due to personal attitudes of the station chief despite unsuccessful contact with security and syndicate leaders. Updates traced transfer first to Giza holding cells, then Helwan, before he returned home that morning to family and colleagues\u2019 relief.<\/p>\n Sudanese citizen<\/a> Mujahid Adel Mohamed Ahmed died in Giza\u2019s Al-Ahram Police Station from diabetes complications after 21 days, his family said. From Dongola and employed at Khartoum Airport, he came to accompany his diabetic father before the latter\u2019s death. Authorities planned deportation to Sudan; relatives failed to secure release for treatment.<\/p>\n The Committee for Justice<\/a> recorded two deaths on 16 August 2025 in tragic conditions involving torture, medical neglect, overcrowding and high cell temperatures.<\/p>\n Lawyer Mohamed Ramadan said Ramadan El-Sayed Hassan died after officers took turns beating him to reveal his wanted brother\u2019s whereabouts. Mohamed Ahmed Saad, serving six months for drug use, suffered severe fever and exhaustion, was hospitalised then returned to the station, where he deteriorated and died.<\/p>\n The committee said denial of basic rights and neglect of detention conditions, particularly heat, violate constitutional and international commitments.<\/p>\n It urged independent transparent investigations and accountability, a comprehensive torture criminalisation law consistent with the Convention against Torture, and independent detention oversight to improve conditions and prevent recurrence.<\/p>\n Its figures put 2025 detention deaths at 37, after fifty recorded in 2024.<\/p>\n Zawia3 documented 24 police station deaths across governorates between January 2024 and June 2025, excluding the 27 July Belqas incident.<\/p>\n Researcher Sara Hamza told Zawia3 authorities had taken no serious steps to stop deaths, with little transparent accountability or independent investigation even for inter-detainee assaults, although the Interior Ministry is legally responsible for safety.<\/p>\n She said recurring deaths reveal structural detention management failure without independent oversight or fundamental reform. Police stations remain closed to civil society visits and effective mechanisms to assess suitability are absent.<\/p>\n On 2 August 2025, the government began a security campaign against women content creators, particularly on TikTok, alleging offences against public decency and Egyptian family values under Cybercrime Law No. 175 of 2018.<\/p>\n A New Woman Foundation paper, \u201cReflections and Meanings in the Ideal Blogger\u2019s Guide,\u201d examined<\/a> vague concepts of social morality and the law\u2019s disproportionate targeting of women, including when documenting assaults in self-defence.<\/p>\n Its analysis raises legislative and gender questions about criminal and social justice and the need to reconsider cybercrime and morality as justifications for security action beyond discriminatory cultural biases.<\/p>\n Bint El-Nil stressed<\/a> that vague charges often control women\u2019s public and private lives, particularly those outside stereotypes. \u201cEgyptian family values\u201d lacks a precise definition, weakening legal accountability.<\/p>\n It called for expression and women\u2019s rights protections and clear provisions consistent with the Constitution, justice and equality.<\/p>\n Lawyer Halim Heneish told Zawia3 the campaign reveals a deeper security and political mindset seeing a security grip as the answer to everything.<\/p>\n He criticised absent legal standards for decency and family values: content may be considered offensive in one city and acceptable in another, exposing fragile legal foundations. Incitement and complaint campaigns are often driven by the same groups attacking refugees and opponents and using sectarian rhetoric.<\/p>\n Recommended reading: The Interior Ministry Raises the Sword of \u201cMorality\u201d against TikTok Creators<\/a><\/p>\n August 2025 combined sit-ins, amicable settlements and new legislation with government action on workers\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n More than one thousand Misr Taiwan garment workers in Shubra El-Kheima staged<\/a> a sit-in over delayed September and October wages, attracting attention. Alexandria\u2019s Amriya Spinning workers suspended a strike after negotiations secured full pay for strike days on 14 August, regarded as a victory.<\/p>\n In Sherbin, Dakahlia, an amicable settlement<\/a> paid a worker over EGP 200,000 after an arbitrary dismissal complaint, illustrating legal and negotiated routes in individual disputes.<\/p>\n The Labour Ministry launched<\/a> awareness seminars in ten governorates, updated union committee records and conducted workplace inspections for rights and safety. It announced 87 implementing decisions supplementing the new 2025 Labour Law, due in September, with provisions to improve rights and conditions.<\/p>\n A Zawia3 report<\/a> documented thousands of construction workers standing daily in harsh sun or cold without legal guarantees or actual fall protection. Ahmed Abdel Hamid, 42, a pseudonym requested by him, moves between Greater Cairo projects on daily wages without contracts or health insurance, working late for barely enough to cover living and transport.<\/p>\n His situation typifies hundreds of thousands of irregular workers classified by Labour Law No. 14 of 2025 among the most vulnerable, alongside street vendors and newspaper distributors. The Labour Ministry estimates 1.1 million irregular workers, while union and UN estimates exceed twelve million, more than half the workforce in informal employment.<\/p>\n Social insurance deepens the problem. Center for Trade Union and Workers Services coordinator Kamal Abbas says contributions are collected for building permits under fictitious names or nonexistent workers, leaving actual workers uninsured. Inspectors rely on company data instead of site visits. Millions remain unprotected despite constitutional Article 17\u2019s social insurance guarantee.<\/p>\n Since 2018, ministerial decisions sought to integrate construction, contracting and quarry workers into comprehensive health insurance. Inaccurate databases and weak ministerial coordination leave many uncovered.<\/p>\n The new law provides registration and an independent emergency, social and health support fund. Labour researcher Hassan El-Barbary says implementation is the problem, with construction largely outside formal structures. He cited workers painting Cairo University\u2019s wall in August without protection, shielding their heads with cardboard.<\/p>\n Poverty data sparked debate after MP Dr Freddy El-Bayady accused government of manipulating figures by omitting monetary poverty for the first time in half a century and relying on multidimensional poverty, less reflective of daily living.<\/p>\n In a statement obtained by Zawia3, he cited constitutional Articles 68, 27 and 8, saying inclusion of cash and in-kind subsidies as income artificially lowers reported poverty. Independent estimates put monetary poverty near 35.7% in 2023, exposing a wide official-experience gap.<\/p>\n The central bank cut<\/a> rates by one hundred basis points to 23% for deposits and 24% for lending after annual inflation fell to 13.9% in July. Despite relative improvement, living pressures continue and concerns persist that lower rates serve government financing more than citizens\u2019 relief.<\/p>\n Recommended reading: Raising Egypt\u2019s Minimum Wage: Between Numbers and Living Reality<\/a><\/p>\n Elections took place<\/a> on 4 and 5 August amid familiar party banners, official claims of heavy turnout and media celebrations of democracy. Field observations instead showed public disengagement and repeated scenarios that lost momentum years ago.<\/p>\n Reports recorded organised mobilisation by government, religious and educational bodies in Sohag, Alexandria, Port Said and Dakahlia, while boycott calls resonated in Matrouh over local issues. Opposition statements documented delayed openings, absent indelible ink and campaigning inside stations, undermining integrity.<\/p>\n The political landscape remained closed: of three hundred senators, one hundred are appointed by the president and two hundred elected under an absolute closed-list system giving pro-government lists full control. The National List for Egypt monopolised list candidacy, reducing competition to formality. The Civil Democratic Movement boycotted over the system and missing safeguards.<\/p>\n Experts and politicians called elections farcical, lacking democratic substance with predetermined results. State institutions continued mobilisation, turning voting into a cosmetic facade without changing power or representation.<\/p>\n Recommended reading: Seventy Million per Seat: Who Buys Their Way into Egypt\u2019s Parliament?<\/a><\/p>\n The Health Ministry<\/a> plans to offer around forty facilities to the private sector under Law No. 87 of 2024 governing public hospital management and operation concessions. Existing and under-construction hospitals form part of wider private participation in public services. Government cites quality and fiscal relief, while critics fear reduced free or subsidised care for low-income people.<\/p>\n The law permits domestic and foreign companies to build, operate and develop hospitals for up to fifteen years, excluding primary and family care and blood and plasma activities. Critics regard continued government oversight as insufficient protection. Lawyer Khaled Ali filed a challenge, citing constitutional health rights and privatisation at social justice\u2019s expense.<\/p>\n Plans coincide with initiatives such as universal health insurance, \u201c100 Days of Health\u201d and \u201c100 Million Healthy Lives,\u201d providing millions of free services. Experts say temporary campaigns fail to resolve staffing, infrastructure and financing. Despite more government and university hospitals, spending remains far below the constitutional 3% of GDP, only 1.17% in the 2024\/2025 budget, with households\u2019 direct spending accounting for 71%.<\/p>\n Low wages and poor conditions drive doctors abroad, reducing beds and physician availability below international standards. Experts warn privatisation may worsen rather than solve shortages by reducing free services and dismissing staff, turning public hospitals into market-driven businesses.<\/p>\n Foreign investment also raises concerns over purely commercial care. Researchers warn of opaque allocation contracts and weak oversight harming the neediest. Public health experts locate the crisis in low spending and eroded infrastructure, calling for reforms grounded in state responsibility to finance and guarantee care for all beyond profitability.<\/p>\n Recommended reading: Healthcare Privatisation: Investors Win, Government Profits, and Citizens Are Left Out<\/a><\/p>\n In Awlad Khalaf, Sohag, Mohamed Sheiba\u2019s family and around twenty others found<\/a> themselves homeless for two years after demolition for the 28-kilometre Dr Mohamed Sayed Tantawy corridor connecting Sohag and Qena. Compensation fell below real value amid rising prices and absent alternatives, forcing some into reed huts without basic services.<\/p>\n In July 2025, a new decision expropriated 194 Qena properties for the same road after failed negotiations. Compensation disputes and missing alternative building permits continued. Dakahlia also saw acquisition of 85 properties for Mansoura\u2013Gamasa road development.<\/p>\n Residents say payments cover less than half demolished land or buildings and promised alternative permits stalled. MPs differ: some call compensation generous, others acknowledge unresolved issues between the Agriculture Ministry and executive bodies. Specialists say the problem extends beyond money to missing recognition of social and economic damage.<\/p>\n Since 2014, expropriation for roads and housing accelerated. Urban experts warn of threats to social fabric without comprehensive planning, large compensation-market gaps and vague public-benefit concepts, leaving citizens without homes or land and insufficient money to restore living standards.<\/p>\n Recommended reading: Sohag\u2019s Dar El-Salam Corridor: From Lifelong Homes to Reed Huts<\/a><\/p>\n Thousands of premature babies face<\/a> recurring shortages of Alveofact, essential for respiratory distress from immature lungs. Often absent in public neonatal units, families must source it privately at over EGP 7,000 per dose.<\/p>\n Egypt sees around 1.9 million births annually, including tens of thousands premature. WHO attributes 20% of under-five deaths to prematurity complications. No local or generic alternatives exist, and imports are sensitive to exchange rates and customs policy, magnifying risk.<\/p>\n Prices rose from around EGP 4,400 a few years earlier to over EGP 7,400 in 2024 and EGP 12,000 on the black market. Families face saving infants or financial collapse; differing public-private prices raise distribution and oversight questions.<\/p>\n Despite official recognition of importance, responses remain vague or absent. Doctors and families at El-Demerdash, El-Shatby, Mansoura International and Assiut University hospitals reported actual deaths from shortages. Some travelled hundreds of kilometres or used unlawful intermediaries.<\/p>\n Read the Zawia3 report: Alveofact: The Missing Lifesaving Injection as Premature Babies Face Death in Egypt\u2019s Neonatal Units<\/a><\/p>\n The cabinet approved<\/a> draft amendments to Law No. 10 of 2018, including the disability definition and customs and VAT exemption for one vehicle per person every fifteen years, strict ownership and use rules, no disposal for five years and heirs\u2019 accountability after death. Fraud or false information penalties rise to ten years\u2019 imprisonment and EGP 200,000 fines.<\/p>\n Rights defenders criticised disproportionate penalties and failure to address Integrated Services Card registration difficulties and low card numbers, absent community dialogue and participation by disabled people and their national council. They questioned timing near the parliamentary term\u2019s end and review before the UN disability rights committee.<\/p>\n Recommended reading: Development Bulldozers Enter El-Reesa in El-Arish<\/a><\/p>\n The Administrative Prosecution reaffirmed support for women\u2019s abilities under its leadership\u2019s directives and the 2030 empowerment strategy. Judge Yara Enaba supervised<\/a> the Abu Zaabal Railway Workshops Club\u2019s general assembly, the first woman assigned this judicial role, reflecting merit without discrimination. Women exceed 42% of its membership and also supervised Senate elections.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Bench Is Her Right\u201d initiative called Presidential Decree No. 447 of 2025, appointing 46 women among 207 assistant delegates, 22%, for the first time, a historic shift. Appointments based on academic grades and evaluation rather than exceptional routes represent constitutional and legal victory and equal opportunity. It described culmination of work since 2014 while urging continued empowerment, monitoring and equality as foundations of state strength.<\/p>\n Recent shocks include collective resignation of thirteen women doctors from a university obstetrics department and young Dr Salma\u2019s death following exhaustion and deteriorating conditions. On Sunday evening, a trainee doctor at Cairo\u2019s Sayed Galal University Hospital suffered a facial cut in an assault while working.<\/p>\n Dr Mohamed Bassiouny said an agitated patient injured in a fight entered insulting doctors, seized a scalpel and attacked his face. Security did not protect him; the patient was restrained only afterwards and handed to police.<\/p>\n A Zawia3 investigation documented harsh conditions and rising government-service resignations during 2020\u20132025. More than 21,000 resigned over seven years, including 4,261 in 2022, 13.5 daily. Between 2019 and March 2022, 11,536 resigned, including 934 in early 2022. More than 4,300 resigned in 2023. Alexandria University announced 117 vacancies in 2025 after collective resignations, with a daily rate reaching twelve doctors.<\/p>\n Doctors Syndicate Secretary-General Dr Khaled Amin told Zawia3 that worsening conditions amounted to complete absurdity. Accumulated pressures are unbearable, prompting resignation, emigration or leaving medicine.<\/p>\n He described pay incompatible with responsibility and humiliating administration, such as requiring attendance fingerprints while doctors are in surgery or emergencies, which he said happens nowhere else.<\/p>\n He said some reject university or public appointments entirely as conditions become a professional inferno. One doctor now does work formerly shared by five; young doctors buckle under pressure witnessed daily by colleagues.<\/p>\n The initial medical liability bill caused panic by portraying doctors as criminal defendants and mistakes as crimes without scientific inquiry or final judgment. Media and social networks defame doctors without legal protection.<\/p>\n He warned that dissatisfied patients can intimidate through complaints and defamation. Even private practitioners face overwhelming administrative and tax demands, electronic invoicing, excessive taxes and endless costs without incentives to remain.<\/p>\n Gulf and European countries offer unprecedented recruitment facilitation, reducing emigration procedures from six or seven months to three or four. Contracts have declined somewhat but remain much better than Egypt\u2019s amid pound depreciation and living difficulties.<\/p>\n Amin said doctors\u2019 voices go unheard: when he responsibly raised concerns, he was referred to prosecutors. Instead of dialogue, the ministry chose security complaints, treating rights demands as threats.<\/p>\n Separately, the syndicate summoned an obstetrician-gynaecologist before its ethics committee over a social media video damaging the profession.<\/p>\n Its statement<\/a> rejected conduct contrary to medicine\u2019s sanctity and human, professional and ethical standards protecting patient privacy and dignity.<\/p>\n It pledged firm action against members harming the profession or breaching duties, protecting professional honour and public confidence.<\/p>\n Recommended reading: How Egypt\u2019s Health Sector Is Quietly Emptied of Its Skilled Professionals<\/a><\/p>\n Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights lawyers filed Case No. 86235 of Judicial Year 79<\/a> in Cairo\u2019s Administrative Court on behalf of patient guardians and psychiatric specialists against the Health Minister, secretary-general for Mental Health and Addiction Treatment, National Mental Health Council chair and Abbasiya Hospital director over higher care and treatment costs.<\/p>\n It sought suspension and cancellation of Health Minister Decision No. 220 of 2025\u2019s new prices, restoration of previous rates and removal of unfair financial restrictions on treatment, care and accommodation in affiliated psychiatric and addiction hospitals. Claimants include Abbasiya physician Dr Ahmed Hussein, former assistant secretary-general of the Doctors Syndicate.<\/p>\n The first claimant, a 64-year-old daily-wage carpenter, cares for his 40-year-old son with schizophrenia. He paid EGP 1,800 monthly during eighteen months\u2019 admission before outpatient treatment. After worsening illness and an assault on his father, the son was readmitted over six weeks earlier and the father asked for EGP 5,400 monthly, beyond his means.<\/p>\n The second claimant is guardian to her brother, admitted to Abbasiya for over two and a half years. Previously paying EGP 1,800 plus food and treatment, she was now asked for EGP 5,400 for accommodation alone, beyond her finances.<\/p>\n The Safe Medical Care for Women and Girls initiative condemned two incidents revealing disregard for bodily and health rights: a sleeve gastrectomy on a nine-year-old against medical and ethical standards, and an obstetrician dancing in an operating room holding a newborn, turning childbirth into a display.<\/p>\n It said a nine-year-old lacks legal, psychological and physical capacity for such serious surgery. Adults should provide safe supportive conditions rather than interventions affecting growth and life. Filming childbirth as a backdrop for a doctor\u2019s performance violates privacy and dignity, reflecting a culture treating female bodies as others\u2019 property.<\/p>\n The initiative proposed a professional code for providers and urged Health Ministry adoption across public and private hospitals:<\/p>\n Its statement<\/a> concluded that women\u2019s and girls\u2019 bodies belong to them and are neither stages for display nor subjects of social pressure. It urged immediate code adoption and enforcement for care based on respect, dignity and decision-making rights.<\/p>\n Recommended reading: How Egypt\u2019s Health Sector Is Quietly Emptied of Its Skilled Professionals<\/a><\/p>\n Activist Dina Zulfikar disclosed an alleged disaster<\/a> at Giza Zoo: filling and construction while animals remained caged, loss of species and killing of lions, tigers and cubs to cut expenses on foreign partners\u2019 recommendation. She said endangered species under CITES were involved and development lacked clear planning and oversight, seeking reinstatement of Egyptian expertise and accountability.<\/p>\n The Animal Protection Foundation complained to Administrative Prosecution and the Public Prosecutor over killings, poor conditions and neglect causing many deaths and denial of oversight access during renovation, raising concerns.<\/p>\nRefaa El-Tahtawy Calls for an International Inquiry into Badr (3)<\/h2>\n
Political Prisoners Recycled into New Cases: Galal El-Behairy and Wael Abdel Ghany<\/h2>\n
The UN Calls on Egypt to End Arbitrary Detention and Release Political Opponents<\/h2>\n
Orabi, El-Rouby and Ashraf Omar\u2019s Detention Renewed without Their Presence<\/h2>\n
Cairo Terrorism Court Acquits All Defendants in State Security Case 145<\/h2>\n
Lina Attalah Summoned after a Report on Badr (3)<\/h2>\n
Rights Organisations Condemn Abdel Rahman Al-Qaradawi\u2019s Continued Disappearance<\/h2>\n
Human Rights Lawyer Mahienour El-Massry Questioned<\/h2>\n
Lawyer Rami Abdel Moneim Released after Holding at El-Badrasheen Police Centre<\/h2>\n
Sudanese Man Dies at Al-Ahram Police Station after 21 Days<\/h2>\n
Two Deaths at Alexandria\u2019s El-Manshiya Police Station amid Torture and Neglect Allegations<\/h2>\n
Public Decency and Family Values<\/h2>\n
Labour Protests and Government Settlements<\/h2>\n
Lives on Scaffolding, Rights on Paper<\/h2>\n
Poverty between Official Figures and Daily Reality<\/h2>\n
Senate Elections: Coercive Mobilisation and Nonparticipation<\/h2>\n
Healthcare Privatisation<\/h2>\n
Expropriation Disputes: The Dar El-Salam Corridor<\/h2>\n
Alveofact: The Missing Lifesaving Injection as Premature Babies Face Death<\/h2>\n
Amendments to the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Law<\/h2>\n
Women Law Graduates Appointed to the State Council: A Historic Equality Step<\/h2>\n
From On-Call Shifts to Forced Labour: Declining Standards of Decent Medical Work<\/h2>\n
Egyptian Center Challenges Higher Psychiatric Hospital Charges<\/h2>\n
Safe Medical Care for Women: Our Bodies Are Not for Experimentation or Display<\/h2>\n
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Rights Allegations of Lions and Tigers Killed at Giza Zoo<\/h2>\n