ECESR Press Releases

Labor Movement | ECESR Condemns Police Brutality with Alexandria “Textile” Workers’ Peaceful Protest

Shooting workers with live bullets and birdshot Security forces escalate violence after months of blatant attacks The ECESR strongly condemns…

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ECESR Challenges Constitutionality of Protest Law

ECESR challenges constitutionality of protest law No.107 of 2013 The Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights, in cooperation with…

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ECESR Calls for Immediate Disclosure of Whereabouts and Cause of Alexandrian Citizen Detention, Arrested Last August

Alexandrian arrested last August, his whereabouts still unknown ECESR calls for immediate disclosure of the whereabouts and cause of detaining…

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Criminal Justice | Shebin Court Clears White Knights Accused of Insulting Zamalek Club President

Shebin el-Kom Misdemeanors Court acquitted Mohammed Tawfiq Antar, Mohammed Atef Shehata and Alaa Zaki Ahmed, the defendants in the case…

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Criminal justice | ECESR Submits Complaint to Prosecutor-General over Noby’s Hunger Strike

ECESR lawyers submitted the complaint (17818/2014) to Prosecutor-General about the hunger strike of Hamada Noby, a defendant in Shura Council…

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Conference Coverage: “That’s Why Workers Protest, This Is Why We Drafted New Labor Law” Conference Held Today at ECESR

That’s Why Workers Protest, This Is Why We Drafted New Labor Law In collaboration with Towards Just Labor Act Campaign,…

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Against Law 32: ECESR Challenges Constitutionality of Corrupt Contracts Law

First ECESR challenge filed at the Constitutional Court this year: Contested Law Engenders Corruption, Protects Corrupt Government Contracts On 8 July…

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ECESR Publishes Major Report on 2013 Protests in Egypt

On 7 July 2014, the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR) published a major report documenting protests in…

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Budget & Transparency | Worrying Reticence over New Budget, Disappearance of Official Announcements

The Ministry of Finance is yet to publish the draft budget bill, despite the law going into force. Until yesterday…

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The Latest on “Coal”: Continuing of Struggle

It has become clear that political elites and business tycoons have united to put Egypt on a toxic path, with…

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