Ethiopia has been offline for a week and nobody is explaining why
Ethiopia’s been offline for the past week, and nobody’s explaining why. The outage comes days after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed pledged to improve the country’s internet service. Abiy Ahmed knows about internet blackouts. Ethiopia’s state-owned provider had cut off the country’s service for three months before he came to power last year. He vowed that […]
Moursi’s family not allowed to bury the ousted Egyptian president in his birthplace
Egyptian authorities prevented former President Mohammed Moursi from being buried in his hometown as his family wished. Egypt’s first democratically elected president was buried in Cairo, hours after collapsing and dying in court yesterday where he was facing espionage charges. Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El Sisi is wary of unrest following the death of Mohamed […]
Mohamed Moursi’s treatment amounted to “torture”
Human Rights Watch is calling yesterday’s death of Mohamed Moursi terrible and entirely predictable given the authorties denial of adequate medical care. They and another rights watchdog Amnesty International are calling for an independent investigation into his treatment during the six year imprisonment of the 67 years old who suffered diabetes hypertension and kidney disease. […]
Mohamed Moursi dies after collapsing in court
Human rights groups are calling for an international investigation into medical treatment of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Moursi who died after collapsing in court in Cairo yesterday. Egypt’s first democratically elected president has been jailed since being deposed in 2013 by his defense minister Abdel Fatah el Sisi who is now the country’s president. Egyptian […]
Egypt’s President El Sisi under growing pressure to reveal prison conditions of the man he overthrew in a 2013 coup
Egypt’s largely pro-government media has virtually ignored yesterday’s death of former President Mohamed Moursi. Those publications that referred to Moursi collapsing any dying in court while facing espionage charges did not refer to the fact that he was Egypt’s first democratically elected president. His politics of fear has kept the lid on things domestically. But […]