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A video shared on X allegedly shows a recent protest in Cairo, Egypt. Verdict: False This video is miscaptioned and originates from 2019. Fact Check: A new Suez Canal channel has been tested with ...
Category: Social issues in Egypt. 4 languages. ... Social movements in Egypt (1 C, 1 P) A. Animal welfare and rights in Egypt (2 C, 1 P) D. Discrimination in Egypt (3 ...
The level of Internet censorship in the Arab Spring was escalated. Lack of Internet freedom was a tactic employed by authorities to quell protests. Rulers and governments across the Arab world utilized the law, technology, and violence to control what was being posted on and disseminated through the Internet.
The 2016-2017 Egyptian protests was a mass protest movement and political unrest movement against president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and his reforms, government and many other core issues. The first and major issue was massive corruption and the selling of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia. Thousands chanted slogans depicting the government and ...
The motivation behind the 2020 protests are similar to that of the 2019 protests. Many Egyptians had been discontent towards the government because of police brutality [13] and the economic issues the country had been facing as a result of the 2016 austerity measures; [5] [9] in 2020, almost 70% of the Egyptian population lived under the poverty line. [5]
Mass protests in the Egyptian revolution of 2011 led to the demission of President Hosni Mubarak, the 2012 Egyptian presidential election won by Mohamed Morsi, the 2012–2013 Egyptian protests against the Morsi presidency, the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état which overthrew Morsi, the August 2013 Rabaa massacre by the security forces and army led by general Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, and an ...
The YouTube video Innocence of Muslims (2012), produced privately within the United States, was interpreted by some Muslims as blasphemous in its mocking of Muhammad, and spurred protests and related anti-American violence internationally despite official condemnation of the video by U.S. government officials. [48]
Egypt's internet penetration rate grew from less than one percent in 2000, to 5% in 2004, 24% in 2009, [5] 54.6% in 2014, and 71.9% in 2022. [6] Egypt has continued to grow internet penetration by investing in the information and communications technology sector, spending E£9.8 billion in 2008 which grew to E£13.5 billion in 2011.