Amr Magdi
@amrmagdi.bsky.social
Every act of telling the truth is a stride towards the collective healing of a society, oppressed and oppressors.
أحلامُنا أحلى مِنْ أحلامِهم
Researcher and writer: MENA region, human rights, secularism, discursive power.
Currently at @hrw.org
أحلامُنا أحلى مِنْ أحلامِهم
Researcher and writer: MENA region, human rights, secularism, discursive power.
Currently at @hrw.org
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Amr Magdi
@amrmagdi.bsky.social
· Oct 8
مصر: اعتقال صحفي بسبب منشورات على "فيسبوك"
احتجزت السلطات المصرية الصحفي المستقل البارز إسماعيل الإسكندراني بسبب منشورات "فيسبوك".
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"بدل أن تغتنم السلطات فرصة الإفراج عن علاء عبد الفتاح لتصحيح المسار، اعتقلت الصحفي إسماعيل الإسكندراني تعسفا بعد استجواب مطول شمولي الطابع. هذه لحظة حاسمة للحكومة المصرية، والطريقة الوحيدة للخروج من أزمتها المزمنة هي التوقف عن احتجاز المنتقدين بشكل غير قانوني وإطلاق سراح جميع المحتجزين تعسفا".
Tunisia: Overturn Unjust ‘Conspiracy’ Trial Convictions
www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
Tunisia: Overturn Unjust ‘Conspiracy’ Trial Convictions
A Tunisian Court on November 17, 2025, is scheduled to hear the appeal of 37 people unjustly sentenced to heavy prison terms in a politically motivated “Conspiracy Case” from April.
www.hrw.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Tunisia: Overturn Unjust ‘Conspiracy’ Trial Convictions
www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
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#Israel: RSF is alarmed that the "Al-Jazeera law" passed its first reading in the Knesset on Monday. The text allows the government to ban the broadcasting of foreign channels in the country, and we condemned it in June.
Israël : sur fond de guerre avec l'Iran, la coalition au pouvoir accroît la pression sur les médias étrangers
Après des déclarations menaçant les médias étrangers, les ministres des Communications et de la Sécurité nationale veulent imposer, dans un contexte de conflit avec l’Iran, un contrôle accru des autor...
rsf.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
#Israel: RSF is alarmed that the "Al-Jazeera law" passed its first reading in the Knesset on Monday. The text allows the government to ban the broadcasting of foreign channels in the country, and we condemned it in June.
Reposted by Amr Magdi
Through the development agency FIAP, the Spanish government is launching two migrant detention facilities that even include cribs, allowing authorities to hold minors.
This investigation comes to light thanks to the support of the @pulitzercenter.org
pulitzercenter.org/projects/bor...
This investigation comes to light thanks to the support of the @pulitzercenter.org
pulitzercenter.org/projects/bor...
Border Externalization: Spain Opens Two Migrant Detention Centers in Mauritania
Through the development agency FIAP, the Spanish government is launching two migrant detention facilities that even include cribs, allowing authorities to hold minors. These centers, located in the...
pulitzercenter.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Through the development agency FIAP, the Spanish government is launching two migrant detention facilities that even include cribs, allowing authorities to hold minors.
This investigation comes to light thanks to the support of the @pulitzercenter.org
pulitzercenter.org/projects/bor...
This investigation comes to light thanks to the support of the @pulitzercenter.org
pulitzercenter.org/projects/bor...
Reposted by Amr Magdi
Interim-directeur Human Rights Watch over bloedbad in Soedan: ‘We wisten honderd procent zeker dat dit zou gebeuren’
Interim-directeur Human Rights Watch over bloedbad in Soedan: ‘We wisten honderd procent zeker dat dit zou gebeuren’
Het bloedbad in Al-Fashir is een nieuw dieptepunt in de burgeroorlog in Soedan. Federico Borello, interim-directeur van Human Rights Watch, stelt de dubieuze rol van de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten aan de kaak. ‘Europa moet een einde aan de wapenleveranties eisen.’
www.parool.nl
November 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Interim-directeur Human Rights Watch over bloedbad in Soedan: ‘We wisten honderd procent zeker dat dit zou gebeuren’
The Venezuelans the United States government sent to El Salvador were tortured and subjected to other abuses, including sexual violence.
Read the new report by @hrw.org
www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
Read the new report by @hrw.org
www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
US/El Salvador: Torture of Venezuelan Deportees
The Venezuelan nationals the US government sent to El Salvador in March and April were tortured and subjected to other abuses, including sexual violence.
www.hrw.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The Venezuelans the United States government sent to El Salvador were tortured and subjected to other abuses, including sexual violence.
Read the new report by @hrw.org
www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
Read the new report by @hrw.org
www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
It's mind-boggling how and why cooperates with assets in dozens of billions would steal low-income workers' wages & fail to compensate them for months & months. No resemblance of rule of law. www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
Saudi Arabia: Migrant Workers in Mecca Arrested for Demanding Unpaid Wages
Saudi Arabia: Migrant Workers in Mecca Arrested for Demanding Unpaid Wages
Saudi Arabia: Migrant Workers in Mecca Arrested for Demanding Unpaid Wages
At least 600 migrant workers employed by Saudi Arabian Baytur Construction Company have not received their salaries for at least eight months.
www.hrw.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
It's mind-boggling how and why cooperates with assets in dozens of billions would steal low-income workers' wages & fail to compensate them for months & months. No resemblance of rule of law. www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
Saudi Arabia: Migrant Workers in Mecca Arrested for Demanding Unpaid Wages
Saudi Arabia: Migrant Workers in Mecca Arrested for Demanding Unpaid Wages
أهوال وجرائم لا يمكن للمخيّلة البشرية استيعابها يسميها المتهم بجرائم الحرب حمديتي مجرد "كارثة" أصابت أهل الفاشر ويطلق تصريحات زائفة عن "محاسبة" بينما أشرف هو وعصابته بشكل مباشر على الكثير من الجرائم المروعة على مدار شهور وسنوات عديدة. القلب يدمى لما يحدث في السودان بينما يتفرج العالم بلا تحرك
🧵1️⃣ ضمن حصارها لمدينة الفاشر طيلة 18 شهرا، حفرت "قوات الدعم السريع" السودانية خندقا وبنت ساترا رمليا حول المدينة.
منذ استيلاء الدعم السريع على الفاشر، وثقت هيومن رايتس ووتش فيديوهات بالقرب من الساتر الرملي إلى الشمال الغربي وحددت مواقعها الجغرافية – وهي فيديوهات يمكن استخدامها لإثبات الجرائم.
منذ استيلاء الدعم السريع على الفاشر، وثقت هيومن رايتس ووتش فيديوهات بالقرب من الساتر الرملي إلى الشمال الغربي وحددت مواقعها الجغرافية – وهي فيديوهات يمكن استخدامها لإثبات الجرائم.
October 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
أهوال وجرائم لا يمكن للمخيّلة البشرية استيعابها يسميها المتهم بجرائم الحرب حمديتي مجرد "كارثة" أصابت أهل الفاشر ويطلق تصريحات زائفة عن "محاسبة" بينما أشرف هو وعصابته بشكل مباشر على الكثير من الجرائم المروعة على مدار شهور وسنوات عديدة. القلب يدمى لما يحدث في السودان بينما يتفرج العالم بلا تحرك
Reposted by Amr Magdi
🧵1️⃣ ضمن حصارها لمدينة الفاشر طيلة 18 شهرا، حفرت "قوات الدعم السريع" السودانية خندقا وبنت ساترا رمليا حول المدينة.
منذ استيلاء الدعم السريع على الفاشر، وثقت هيومن رايتس ووتش فيديوهات بالقرب من الساتر الرملي إلى الشمال الغربي وحددت مواقعها الجغرافية – وهي فيديوهات يمكن استخدامها لإثبات الجرائم.
منذ استيلاء الدعم السريع على الفاشر، وثقت هيومن رايتس ووتش فيديوهات بالقرب من الساتر الرملي إلى الشمال الغربي وحددت مواقعها الجغرافية – وهي فيديوهات يمكن استخدامها لإثبات الجرائم.
October 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
🧵1️⃣ ضمن حصارها لمدينة الفاشر طيلة 18 شهرا، حفرت "قوات الدعم السريع" السودانية خندقا وبنت ساترا رمليا حول المدينة.
منذ استيلاء الدعم السريع على الفاشر، وثقت هيومن رايتس ووتش فيديوهات بالقرب من الساتر الرملي إلى الشمال الغربي وحددت مواقعها الجغرافية – وهي فيديوهات يمكن استخدامها لإثبات الجرائم.
منذ استيلاء الدعم السريع على الفاشر، وثقت هيومن رايتس ووتش فيديوهات بالقرب من الساتر الرملي إلى الشمال الغربي وحددت مواقعها الجغرافية – وهي فيديوهات يمكن استخدامها لإثبات الجرائم.
Reposted by Amr Magdi
Cutting aid has a human cost.
The US Department of Agriculture announced last Friday that it will stop distributing payments for essential food assistance through SNAP starting November 1 if the federal government is still shut down.
The US Department of Agriculture announced last Friday that it will stop distributing payments for essential food assistance through SNAP starting November 1 if the federal government is still shut down.
October 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Cutting aid has a human cost.
The US Department of Agriculture announced last Friday that it will stop distributing payments for essential food assistance through SNAP starting November 1 if the federal government is still shut down.
The US Department of Agriculture announced last Friday that it will stop distributing payments for essential food assistance through SNAP starting November 1 if the federal government is still shut down.
Türkiye: Draft Law Threatens LGBT People with Prison www.hrw.org/news/2025/10... one of the most alarming rollbacks of rights in decades
Türkiye: Draft Law Threatens LGBT People with Prison
A government proposal would pave the way to bring criminal charges against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Türkiye, one of the most alarming rollbacks of rights in decades, Hu...
www.hrw.org
October 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Türkiye: Draft Law Threatens LGBT People with Prison www.hrw.org/news/2025/10... one of the most alarming rollbacks of rights in decades
Reposted by Amr Magdi
Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab says satellite images seem to show mass killings in Sudan's western city of el-Fasher.
Yale report finds evidence of RSF mass killings in Sudan’s el-Fasher
Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab says satellite images seem to show mass killings in Sudan's western city of el-Fasher.
bit.ly
October 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab says satellite images seem to show mass killings in Sudan's western city of el-Fasher.
Saudi Arabia: Release 10 Nubian Egyptian Men Immediately
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10... Imprisoned for Promoting Nubian Cultural Heritage
#Egypt #KSA
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10... Imprisoned for Promoting Nubian Cultural Heritage
#Egypt #KSA
Saudi Arabia: Release 10 Nubian Egyptian Men Immediately
Saudi authorities should immediately release 10 Nubian Egyptians who have been unjustly detained for over five years.
www.hrw.org
October 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Saudi Arabia: Release 10 Nubian Egyptian Men Immediately
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10... Imprisoned for Promoting Nubian Cultural Heritage
#Egypt #KSA
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10... Imprisoned for Promoting Nubian Cultural Heritage
#Egypt #KSA
Reposted by Amr Magdi
The Leahy law is being killed off. "The US State Department has removed an online portal for reporting alleged human rights violations by foreign military units supplied with American weapons." www.bbc.com/news/article...
US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces
The Human Rights Reporting Gateway acted as a formal "tip line" to the US government.
www.bbc.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The Leahy law is being killed off. "The US State Department has removed an online portal for reporting alleged human rights violations by foreign military units supplied with American weapons." www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reposted by Amr Magdi
توثيق استهداف المحتجين على معاملة المهاجرين في شيكاغو، الولايات المتحدة.
على الكونغرس الأمريكي التدقيق في استخدام القوة من قبل عناصر الأمن الفدراليين وتعزيز المحاسبة في عمليات إنفاذ قوانين الهجرة.
على الكونغرس الأمريكي التدقيق في استخدام القوة من قبل عناصر الأمن الفدراليين وتعزيز المحاسبة في عمليات إنفاذ قوانين الهجرة.
October 25, 2025 at 4:25 AM
توثيق استهداف المحتجين على معاملة المهاجرين في شيكاغو، الولايات المتحدة.
على الكونغرس الأمريكي التدقيق في استخدام القوة من قبل عناصر الأمن الفدراليين وتعزيز المحاسبة في عمليات إنفاذ قوانين الهجرة.
على الكونغرس الأمريكي التدقيق في استخدام القوة من قبل عناصر الأمن الفدراليين وتعزيز المحاسبة في عمليات إنفاذ قوانين الهجرة.
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Remotely operated explosive robots were deployed by Israel across Gaza, causing many deaths, widespread destruction.
Gaza returnee places family tent over unexploded Israeli bomb
Remotely operated explosive robots were deployed by Israel across Gaza, causing many deaths, widespread destruction.
bit.ly
October 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Remotely operated explosive robots were deployed by Israel across Gaza, causing many deaths, widespread destruction.
Who said the White colonial mindset of German authorities is effectively over? Read below 👇
Returning colonial-era cultural belongings & ancestral remains is an international human rights & reparations issue. Communities' rights should be at the core. Yet Germany's new guidelines distance themselves from international law.
Returns aren't goodwill gestures.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
Returns aren't goodwill gestures.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
New German Guidelines on Colonial Returns Fail Rights Test
Last week, German federal, state, and local authorities adopted Common Guidelines on the handling of cultural assets and human remains from colonial contexts. Despite the welcome efforts to regulate t...
www.hrw.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Who said the White colonial mindset of German authorities is effectively over? Read below 👇
Reposted by Amr Magdi
Returning colonial-era cultural belongings & ancestral remains is an international human rights & reparations issue. Communities' rights should be at the core. Yet Germany's new guidelines distance themselves from international law.
Returns aren't goodwill gestures.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
Returns aren't goodwill gestures.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
New German Guidelines on Colonial Returns Fail Rights Test
Last week, German federal, state, and local authorities adopted Common Guidelines on the handling of cultural assets and human remains from colonial contexts. Despite the welcome efforts to regulate t...
www.hrw.org
October 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Returning colonial-era cultural belongings & ancestral remains is an international human rights & reparations issue. Communities' rights should be at the core. Yet Germany's new guidelines distance themselves from international law.
Returns aren't goodwill gestures.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
Returns aren't goodwill gestures.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
Reposted by Amr Magdi
Let’s be clear: the #EUEgypt summit was an orchestrated whitewashing event to sanitize Sisi’s image as a brutally repressive ruler.
With its moral compass buried under Gaza’s rubble, the EU no longer subtly but openly, proudly bankrolls authoritarianism: dw.com/en/eu-embrac...
With its moral compass buried under Gaza’s rubble, the EU no longer subtly but openly, proudly bankrolls authoritarianism: dw.com/en/eu-embrac...
EU embraces authoritarian Egypt for help on Gaza, migration – DW – 10/23/2025
As the EU held its first-ever bilateral summit with Egypt, activists said the bloc was rewarding an authoritarian government. But experts told DW the EU needs Egypt if it wants to help in Gaza and cur...
dw.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Let’s be clear: the #EUEgypt summit was an orchestrated whitewashing event to sanitize Sisi’s image as a brutally repressive ruler.
With its moral compass buried under Gaza’s rubble, the EU no longer subtly but openly, proudly bankrolls authoritarianism: dw.com/en/eu-embrac...
With its moral compass buried under Gaza’s rubble, the EU no longer subtly but openly, proudly bankrolls authoritarianism: dw.com/en/eu-embrac...
Without US unlawful > $20billion weapons transfers, diplomatic support and political abuse of its UNSC Veto power & other leveres, Israel wouldn't be able to defy almost every single international law instrument. But that day of reckoning is sure to come.
ICJ states Israel must allow aid into Gaza, ensuring food, water, medicine, and shelter for the Palestinian population.
After ICJ ruling, can UN relief agency UNRWA resume full Gaza operations?
ICJ states Israel must allow aid into Gaza, ensuring food, water, medicine, and shelter for the Palestinian population.
bit.ly
October 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Without US unlawful > $20billion weapons transfers, diplomatic support and political abuse of its UNSC Veto power & other leveres, Israel wouldn't be able to defy almost every single international law instrument. But that day of reckoning is sure to come.
Reposted by Amr Magdi
ICJ states Israel must allow aid into Gaza, ensuring food, water, medicine, and shelter for the Palestinian population.
After ICJ ruling, can UN relief agency UNRWA resume full Gaza operations?
ICJ states Israel must allow aid into Gaza, ensuring food, water, medicine, and shelter for the Palestinian population.
bit.ly
October 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
ICJ states Israel must allow aid into Gaza, ensuring food, water, medicine, and shelter for the Palestinian population.
As Sisi is in Brussels in first-ever summit with top EU leaders, it's fundamental to remind all sides of the failure to center the human rights of the peoples involved while favoring narrow-minded political interests.
full @hrw.org g statement with 10 other NGOs
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
full @hrw.org g statement with 10 other NGOs
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
October 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
As Sisi is in Brussels in first-ever summit with top EU leaders, it's fundamental to remind all sides of the failure to center the human rights of the peoples involved while favoring narrow-minded political interests.
full @hrw.org g statement with 10 other NGOs
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
full @hrw.org g statement with 10 other NGOs
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
A recording of side event @ 85th session of the #ACHPR in Banjul, highlighting the various aspects of the human rights crisis in Egypt & the ongoing disregard for the African Charter & other international obligations.
I was honored to be part of such bravel panel
www.youtube.com/live/85e0jUr...
I was honored to be part of such bravel panel
www.youtube.com/live/85e0jUr...
Accountability and Rights – Reviewing the Implementation of the 2019 ACHPR Recommendations
YouTube video by Committee For Justice
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A recording of side event @ 85th session of the #ACHPR in Banjul, highlighting the various aspects of the human rights crisis in Egypt & the ongoing disregard for the African Charter & other international obligations.
I was honored to be part of such bravel panel
www.youtube.com/live/85e0jUr...
I was honored to be part of such bravel panel
www.youtube.com/live/85e0jUr...
Recent racism-infused statements by Merz are a shameful disgrace. The danger of these statements are far reaching as they significantly contribute to anti-human rights movement that’s increasingly undermine laws & norms & intoxicate the very societies of they claim to be defending. Disgusting!
and for those in the back who still don't believe it:
Anyone who associates sexual and gender-based violence with immigration is not seeking to prevent gender-based violence, but rather fomenting outright racism.
Friedrich Merz does not care about women.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Anyone who associates sexual and gender-based violence with immigration is not seeking to prevent gender-based violence, but rather fomenting outright racism.
Friedrich Merz does not care about women.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘Ask your daughters’: Merz defends his call for large-scale deportations
German chancellor is accused of taking a page from extremist parties with ‘dangerous’ rhetoric on immigration
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Recent racism-infused statements by Merz are a shameful disgrace. The danger of these statements are far reaching as they significantly contribute to anti-human rights movement that’s increasingly undermine laws & norms & intoxicate the very societies of they claim to be defending. Disgusting!
Attending the 85th session of the ACHPR in Banjul on behalf of @hrw.org with many brave Egyptian and Tunisian HRDs (both countries reviewed in coming days) to push back against damaging efforts by abusive governments and highlight the near-absolute annihilation of civic space and liberties in #Egypt
October 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Attending the 85th session of the ACHPR in Banjul on behalf of @hrw.org with many brave Egyptian and Tunisian HRDs (both countries reviewed in coming days) to push back against damaging efforts by abusive governments and highlight the near-absolute annihilation of civic space and liberties in #Egypt
Reposted by Amr Magdi
The EU promised Egypt €7.4 billion in exchange for human rights improvements. Sadly, we see no change so far.
Don't roll out the red carpet for Al-Sisi, but demand change during Wednesday's summit: No human rights improvements, no EU money.
That's our message to @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu 👇
Don't roll out the red carpet for Al-Sisi, but demand change during Wednesday's summit: No human rights improvements, no EU money.
That's our message to @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu 👇
October 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The EU promised Egypt €7.4 billion in exchange for human rights improvements. Sadly, we see no change so far.
Don't roll out the red carpet for Al-Sisi, but demand change during Wednesday's summit: No human rights improvements, no EU money.
That's our message to @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu 👇
Don't roll out the red carpet for Al-Sisi, but demand change during Wednesday's summit: No human rights improvements, no EU money.
That's our message to @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu 👇