Robert Becker

[Abdelrahman Ayyash @3yyash]

The Turkish authorities should immediately release Ghada Naguib. Turkish intelligence officers arrested Ghada from her house in Istanbul today in a “humiliating, merciless way” in front of her children according to her husband Hisham Abdallah. @abnalbl62532021

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

Exiled Egyptian opposition activist Ghada Naguib was arrested by plainclothed officers in Turkey on Monday without being given a reason, her son told MEE, warning she may be deported to Cairo as a result ⤵️
https://t.co/9KHaZd2ZXh

[DAWN MENA @DAWNmenaorg]

"The blatant disregard for the political rights and human life of Egyptians exhibited by Judge Farid has made him a key tool of President El-Sisi following the 2013 military coup in Egypt. An agent of state repression, Judge Farid has carried out some of the most atrocious human rights violations in Egypt while targeting political opponents on behalf of El-Sisi's government," said @Hoffman8Jon, Research Director for @DAWNmenaorg. https://t.co/uMs685J7wX

[Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany]

The warmest welcome to the wonderful Egyptian journalist @solafasallam who we are thrilled to host at @TimepDC as the ninth Bassem Sabry Fellow in partnership with @atlascorps!

In eternal gratitude for those who first stood this program up. May we always do @Bassem_Sabry proud.

[Nomiki - @nomiki.bsky.social @NomikiKonst]

There’s a vessel full of essential diesel off the coast of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico that cannot get access to the port because of the Jones Act. Will the Biden administration issue a waiver?

[Power4PuertoRico @Pwr4PuertoRico]

Reposted from @biancagraulau: "Again, the millions of dollars in contracts are to take care of the very issue they [@lumaenergypr] said caused some of the outages. The $60 million contract was first reported by @notiuno 🎥⬇️

[Gianluca Costantini @channeldraw]

Mohamed Adel, 1513 days = 4 years, 1 month, 22 days in pretrial detention #Egypt
As Mohamed Adel celebrates his 34th birthday we are reminded that he has now spent a quarter of his life in jail for the crime of having an opinion.

Info: https://t.co/jWI0jOLkkC

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

🥳 Big announcement folks.
It's finally here!!! Feeling super emotional as the hard copies of Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East finally arrived! Thanks from the bottom of my heart to everyone who has been part of this journey, & to my publisher @HurstPublishers. You...

[Michele Dunne @MicheleDDunne]

If Egypt Won’t Free Alaa Abd El-Fattah, It Had Better Brace for an Angry Climate Conference https://t.co/7eSqkY06Pe via @NewYorker

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

US diplomats trumpet Biden's cut of $130M in military aid to Egypt (10% of its overall annual package) because of its abysmal human-rights record. "But officials in Cairo see it the other way round: they can rebuff America & still take home more than $1B." https://t.co/PoIeDrA9dz

[Free Alaa @FreedomForAlaa]

For #FathersDay,

Olivia Colman, Carey Mulligan, @MarkRuffalo, Emily Watson, Rebecca Hall, Morgan Spector, Richard Ratcliffe, and @KhalidAbdalla read from "Half an Hour with Khaled," by Alaa.

#FreeAlaa

Part 1/2

[BBC Radio 4 Today @BBCr4today]

"I don't think things are moving fast enough"

Alaa Abdel Fattah is a British-Egyptian activist imprisoned in Egypt, who has been on hunger strike for 53 days.

His sister Mona Seif tells @MishalHusain the UK government is best placed to help him.

https://t.co/HeZvNCNmxE

[Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany]

8 years today.

Remembering one of the kindest & most genuine souls this world gave us. A man who set the bar so high for what it means to be a principled advocate & who inspired a generation of researchers & scholars.

Rest in peace @Bassem_Sabry. You are missed so very much.

[Sarah Leah Whitson @sarahleah1]

Happy day: #Egypt releases 41 unjustly held detainees, including Waleed Shawky,
Radwa Mohammed,
Mohammed Salah,
Haitham Banna - confident that Anwar Sadat played an important role in making this happen

[The New Arab @The_NewArab]

Among the released was journalist Mohamed Salah and political activist Waleed Shawky, whose wife posted a picture of the couple hugging 👇

https://t.co/x4aOuDiMwK

[Timothy E Kaldas @tekaldas]

The @StateDept needs to clean this up.

The visa processing is already a dreadful experience for the global south, but this is egregious.

A 721 day wait time for a tourist visa in Jordan? I’m hearing it’s around a year in Egypt as well.

[Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany]

In a heartshattering video, the mother of Haitham al-Banna pleas for the release of her son.

Haitham was forcibly disappeared from his home & remains missing still after he put up a social media post remembering the January 25 revolution.

[Robert Becker @rbecker51]

Hey @UNClimateSummit are “forced disappearances” a part of combatting climate change? It’s way past time the UN use its leverage with the Egyptian dictatorship. #COP27 #Egypt

[Mada Masr مدى مصر @MadaMasr]

UPDATE: Activist Haitham al-Banna was brought before the State Security Prosecution on Wednesday, 10 days after he was arrested from his home and forcibly disappeared, lawyer Khaled Ali said. He was handed a 15-day remand detention order on terrorism and false news charges.

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

“Egypt is becoming a republic of fear.”

Activist Ramy Shaath spent over 900 days in detention in Egypt, accused of terrorism but never charged. Now he's free after being forced to renounce his citizenship.

Watch him describe his detention & the state of human rights in Egypt.