11 July 2018 State Security Emergency Criminal Court has sentenced the president of the student union of 10TH Of Ramadan - Higher Technological Institute, Ahmed Mohamed Gaber, known as Rony to one year in prison. Ahmed is charged with…

View full report in PDF View Methodology of Monitoring and DocumentationSituation of Freedom of Expression in Egypt 2nd quarter (April – June 2018) Prepared by Sara Mohsen Researcher, Monitoring and Documentation Unit Wessam Atta Director,…

9 July 2018 Al-Raml II Prosecution in Alexandria has decided the detention of Mohamed Abd-Alnaby for 15 days pending investigation. Abd-Alnaby is facing the charges of joining a terrorist group and promoting for it’s ideas, call for…

Prepared by Mahmoud Othman, AFTE lawyer Edited by Mohamed Abdel Salam, Director, AFTE research unit Introduction For the second time in the career of director Khaled Youssef, security authorities intervene to ban a film of his making, but…

The report uncovers anomalies on Egyptian networks, including censorship and the hijacking of unencrypted HTTP connections for advertising and cryptocurrency mining. Last year, Egypt ordered the blocking of 21 news websites. OONI, a…

A research study by the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) and the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE). To download a full copy of the report in PDF format click here …

read the full paper in pDFPrepared by: Sarah Ramadan Researcher, Association for Freedom of thought and Expression (AFTE) Editor: Mohamed Abdel Salam, director of AFTE research unit Summary In January 2018, Dr. Inas Abdel-Dayem, in a…

The Association of Freedom of Thought and Expression strongly condemns the ruling by the disciplinary court of the State Council to dismiss director in the Egyptian television, Ali Abu-Hemila. The ruling claimed that Abu-Hemila went out of…

20 June 2018 Supreme Court has decided to dismiss Ali Hasanen Abo-Hemila of his posession as the manager of Outdoors Recordings of Nile Drama channel. Ali was facing the charges of "going in a directio that doesn't respect his work duty,…

The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) and Access Now condemn the Egyptian Parliament’s approvalof the Law on Combating Cybercrimes (“Cybercrime Law”), which provides new authority for online surveillance, blocking of…