Egypt
EgyptAir Internal Document: Egyptian Authorities Impose New Measures Prohibiting Entry of Sudanese and Refugees into Egyptian Territories
According to an internal publication from EgyptAir’s General Stations Administration, issued May 29, 2023, and reviewed by the Refugees Platform in Egypt (RPE), addressed to all acting general managers, station managers, and traffic officers within the company. This document includes new instructions mandated by the Egyptian General Administration of Passports, Immigration, and Nationality at Cairo...
A guide for support and service providers for new arrivals in Egypt
A guide for support and service providers for new arrivals in Egypt: The most important advice and guidance on the law, residence and movement On April 15, conflict broke out between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan. Civilians became unsafe in light of the repercussions on various sectors echoing shortages in...
Alert: What do you need to know if you are an immigrant in Egypt during the security crackdown because of protest calls during COP 27?
During the past weeks, Egyptian human rights organizations have documented campaigns of arbitrary arrests in some areas in Cairo and other governorates. The campaigns included arresting pedestrians in the streets, verifying their personal identities, searching the contents of mobile phones and social media, and detaining people for hours. The organizations also documented the arrest of...
Egyptian Public Prosecution orders the release of a Somali child who ended the life of a tuk-tuk driver who tried to rape her
Today, the Egyptian Public Prosecution ordered the release of the Somali child held in custody. The 15-years-old was detained for four days pending investigations. she killed a tuk-tuk driver with a knife when he tried to rape her under threat with a pocket knife in the 6th of October City. The Police confirmed the validity...
The Egyptian Public Prosecution orders the imprisonment of a Somali child who ended the life of a driver who tried to sexually abuse her in the 6th of October City
A 15-year-old Somali child, surrendered herself to the Egyptian police, confessing the killing of a tuk-tuk driver who tried to sexually assault her, in the eleventh district of October 6 city, Giza governorate, Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper reported. The Somali child came to the police station accompanied by a lawyer affiliated with the United Nations High...
An important warning to refugees about scammers, and a request to UNHCR
In the last period, we have monitored many comments on our pages and the pages of organisations working and interested in refugee issues in Egypt and other posts on refugee groups in Egypt from people claiming to facilitate resettlement procedures or facilitate the issuance of travel visas to countries such as the USA, Canada, the...
March 2022: The Libyan authorities deport hundreds of Egyptian migrants, most of them minors
Last March witnessed the deportation of large numbers of irregular migrants from Libya to Egypt through the land border crossings between the two countries. “Refugees Platform in Egypt” followed many deportation incidents and obtained lists of names of Egyptians who were deported during the past month from Libya to Egypt. (You can find the lists...
In one week: Egypt forcibly deports 31 Eritrean asylum seekers to Asmara and prepares to deport dozens of detained migrants
The “Refugees Platform in Egypt – RPE ” monitored and documented that the Egyptian authorities committed the crime of forced deportations against 31 Eritrean asylum-seekers from Egypt to Asmara – the capital of Eritrea – during the past week. RPE also monitored the transfer of dozens of Eritreans from a detention centre in Aswan Governorate,...
A security apparatus arrests Sudanese refugees, forcing them to work under torture, and then leaving them in the desert in the absence of UNHCR protection
“I was sitting in the café, waiting for someone to rent an apartment from. A microbus stopped in front of me… they pulled me to the police section with two others, then took me to a store to move boxes, I don’t know what they contained. Then they left me in the desert…They threatened me...
“HRW” criticizes Egypt for the “forced returns” of Eritrean asylum seekers…and the Refugee Platform documented dozens of detainees at risk of deportation, including children
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said yesterday in a statement that the Egyptian authorities are forcibly deporting Eritrean asylum seekers, including children, without assessing their asylum claims or other protection needs. It condemned these practices, saying that such measures expose the deportees to the risk of arbitrary arrest and torture in their countries. HRW criticized Egypt...
Egyptian citizen assaulting a Sudanese child
Two days ago, we published a video clip that we received from a Sudanese girl containing an incident of an Egyptian citizen assaulting a Sudanese child; this video was sent to her intended as an insult as she and the boy shared the same skin colour and nationality. Refugee Platform in Egypt team tried to...