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On first week of summit there have been traffic jams, water shortages – and an atmosphere of state repression

Attenders say actions of Egyptian authorities are threatening their participation at conference

The software developer and political activist was sentenced to five years for ‘spreading false news’ and is protesting against his imprisonment

The family of one of Egypt’s top jailed pro-democracy activists warn that the clock is ticking on his life as they plead with world leaders at the U.N. climate conference to press Egypt for his release

Alaa Abd El-Fatteh aunt said she fears the British government will be ‘fobbed off’ by Egypt

Sister of long-detained water striker has ‘pinned her hopes’ on new prime minister securing his release

Reparations to poor countries suffering the impacts of climate change and calls to drastically slash greenhouse emissions are two of the biggest storylines the first day of the U.N. climate summit, known as COP27

British-Egyptian activist and figurehead of 2011 uprising now refusing water after six-month hunger strike

Detained Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah’s decision to escalate a hunger strike in prison to a refusal to drink water has raised the stakes and shone a spotlight on human rights violations as Egypt hosts the COP27 climate summit. For his mother, the time has come for the world to…