Shortly before the 11 year anniversary of the Day of Rage Egyptian activist living in the US, Aly Hussin Mahdy, sent me two videos which had been recorded inside Katameya Prison in Egypt. The videos are believed to have been filmed in 2021 and show inmates being tortured. In the footage, an inmate is blindfolded and lies face down on the floor with his hands tied to his legs behind his back, whilst others have wounds on their legs and backs.

On 11 February 2011 President Hosni Mubarak, who had ruled Egypt for 30 years, stepped down from power. It was a moment of intense euphoria and immense upheaval in the region. Here, eight Egyptians tell their story of the 18 days of protest and 10 years of tyranny that followed his downfall through exclusive interviews and video footage.

In 2011 residents of the fishing town of Idku close to Egypt’s northern city of Alexandria gathered to oppose British Petroleum’s (BP) plans to pump gas onshore where they would process it for onwards shipment. There were many parts of the project which angered activists including the proposition that the gas plant would be built on Idku’s sandy strip of beach.

Over 5,000 Eritreans leave their country each month due to severe human rights violations committed by the government. Isaias Afwerki's one-party state exerts control over the media and the judiciary and uses torture, arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances to repress its own people. One in every 11 Eritreans are refugees.

At 3am, two weeks after he spoke out in a meeting against members of the ruling Popular Front for Democracy Party, security forces entered Mohamed’s house, beat him up in front of his mother and his wife and accused him of trafficking people out of Eritrea.

At 1.38am on Wednesday 14 June Rania Ibrahim streamed a live video on her Facebook wall from inside her home, a flat on the 23rd floor of Grenfell Tower where she lived with her husband and two young children. The building is on fire, she says, holding the phone out of the window to show viewers that the blaze had reached the 20th floor and is making its way in her direction.

When the Merowe Dam in Sudan was built Ali Askouri, his

family and their community were flooded out of their homes 80

kilometres from where it was being constructed to make way

for the project; part of his family were pressured to move to

resettlement housing and part of them stayed in the area. That

was in 2008. To this day, the government have not compensated

these families.