Former Member of Parliament Dr. Dardery has recently sent a letter to President Biden against the execution of innocents in Egypt after Egypt’s Court of Cassation upheld their death sentences Dr. Abdul Mawgood Dardery, former [ More … ]
Ever Given’s Six Days in Suez – how the ‘Ever Given’ and its billion-dollar cargo got stuck, got free, got impounded, and got taken to court. On 24 June 2021, Bloomberg published a report by [ More … ]
Mehmet Gormez, the former head of the Turkish Directorate of Religious Affairs calls on the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar and the Mufti of Egypt to intervene for intervening to stop implementation of the recent death [ More … ]
Monday June 14, 2021, Egypt’s Court of Cassation upheld death sentences for 12 protestors, including prominent Muslim Brotherhood leaders, concluding a trial linked to a 2013 mass killing by security forces of President Morsi supporters [ More … ]
The Emirati English-language newspaper, The National, has promoted a scheme related to the construction of a large dam in South Sudan on the Nile River, despite the Emirati-financed Ethiopian Renaissance Dam crisis. The newspaper conducted [ More … ]
Director of Ethiopian Defense Ministry’s Engineering Department: Egypt will not be able to destroy the Renaissance Dam, and we are ready for a military solution The Director of the Engineering Department at the Ethiopian Ministry [ More … ]
A number of human rights organizations and defenders on Wednesday sent a letter to the French parliament, calling on the French MPs to interfere to cancel or even commute the politicized death sentences against 12 [ More … ]
Egyptian Interior Minister Mahmoud Tawfik has decided to establish 8 new central prisons in 4 governorates: Fayoum, Aswan, Kafr El-Sheikh and Gharbia. The first decree No. 1120 of 2021 stipulated the establishment of two central [ More … ]
Turkish authorities asked Egyptian opposition media professionals to stop their TV programs broadcast from Turkey, Egyptian opposition media Sources said. The Turkish request to presenters of influential television programs on the Egyptian street comes amid [ More … ]
An investigation into the sale of surveillance technologies to Libya and Egypt has led to charges against leaders at one company. Senior executives at a French spyware firm have been indicted for the company’s sale [ More … ]
Rights group urges UK to probe UAE activist’s death near London A US-based advocacy group, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), has called on United Kingdom authorities to investigate the circumstances of a prominent [ More … ]
Judiciary head Ebrahim Raisi has been elected as the next president of Iran at a critical juncture for the country. Who is the conservative leader and what are his positions? The 60-year-old Raisi, who enjoys wide backing [ More … ]
Egypt’s al-Sisi should immediately commute the death sentences for 12 protestors, including prominent Muslim Brotherhood leaders who had been convicted in a grossly unfair mass trial for participation in the 2013 Rab’a sit-in that ended with security [ More … ]
A group of expatriate Egyptian politicians and political activists are urging the US, UN and multinational bodies in Europe and Africa to pressure the Egyptian government to stop the execution of a dozen members of [ More … ]
Erdogan told his US counterpart Joe Biden that Turkey will not backtrack on acquisition of Russian S-400 air defenses, or F-35s. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his US counterpart this week that Ankara will [ More … ]
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