Egypt has arrested Dr. Ayman Mansour Nada, a media professor who criticized pro-regime media figures close to the regime. Rassd News Network posted a tweet, saying: Professor of Mass Communication at Cairo University Dr. Ayman [ More … ]
Kuwait has announced that the country’s labor market has lost 199,000 non-Kuwaiti workers, mostly from the Egyptian and Indian nationalities, covering 15 different activities, which is the largest number in the history of the country. [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities are abusing counter-terrorism laws to arbitrarily detain a leading businessman and his son in conditions that amount to torture in reprisal for their refusal to hand over company assets, Amnesty International said yesterday. [ More … ]
Ethiopian Embassy in Cairo will close starting in October, says Ethiopian ambassador to Cairo. Does the decision have anything to do with the Renaissance Dam crisis? The Ethiopian Ambassador to Egypt Markos Tekle Rike told [ More … ]
The Reform Current headed by dismissed Fatah leader Mohammad Dahlan was shocked by Egypt’s refusal to accept the relocation of its office from Abu Dhabi to Cairo, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported on Friday. Sources close to [ More … ]
Cairo has ranked 57th out of 60 cities on index of the Safest Cities for 2021, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit has. Cairo is back on the Economist’s Safe Cities Index — and it’s [ More … ]
The Egyptian cabinet has approved a decision put forward by Sisi to allocate 90,000 acres of state-owned land in the Rabaa and Bir Al-Abed areas of Sinai to the Army’s National Service Projects Organization (NSPO). [ More … ]
The US democratic leadership seems to have bowed to pressure from progressive lawmakers, with plans to introduce a stand-alone bill later this week to fund Israel’s aerial defense system US House Democrats have reportedly removed [ More … ]
The Egyptian general who ruled the country following the Arab Spring uprising that removed longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak from power, has died. Hussein Tantawi, the Egyptian general who took charge of the country when longtime [ More … ]
Several “Tora” prisoners have been trained to talk about prison conditions before Sisi, with promises to include them in a presidential pardon list, reported Mada Masr. According to Mada Masr, one of the lawyers, who [ More … ]
The historic Merryland Park, the largest park in Heliopolis district, is currently in great danger, with a plan to completely destroy a large part of it and cut down a large number of its 100-year [ More … ]
Tunisian demonstrators in Tunis chanted ‘the people want the coup to fail’ and called for restoration of parliament Hundreds of Tunisians took to the streets in the capital, Tunis, on Saturday to protest against President [ More … ]
A recent Amnesty report says victims were subjected to ‘intrusive questioning’ with threats of torture against them and their families Amnesty International yesterday, Thursday, accused Egyptian security agencies of “persistent intimidation and harassment” of human [ More … ]
Egyptian rights groups have denounced the referral of Bologna University post-graduate student and researcher to emergency court Ten Egyptian human rights organizations on Tuesday denounced the State Security Prosecution’s decision to refer Patrick George Zaki, [ More … ]
The Biden administration is releasing nearly $200 million in military aid to Egypt but will hold back millions more over human rights concerns, the State Department said Tuesday in an announcement quickly criticized by rights [ More … ]
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