The imprisoned military officers have reportedly announced going on a hunger strike to protest ill-treatment. The families of the imprisoned army officers announced Tuesday that their sons had started an open hunger strike for several [ More … ]
The executive director of EIPR, Hossam Bahgat, has been convicted for a tweet criticizing election fraud and handed a ten thousand Egyptian pound ($635) fine. The court found Hossam Bahgat, the executive director of the [ More … ]
Dr. Hamdi Hassan, a former Muslim Brotherhood member of parliament who was elected three times between 2000 and 2012, has died in his cell according to his son. Hamdi Hassan died on Thursday at the [ More … ]
An Israeli report says Egypt’s role in Gaza reconstruction works ‘bolsters Israel’s strategy of keeping Gaza and the West Bank separated, blocking a diplomatic solution’ The huge billboards bearing a picture of Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi [ More … ]
Emirati Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology said on Wednesday that Turkey and the United Arab Emirates are entering a new era of relations, according to Anadolu News Agency. Speaking to Turkish state broadcaster, TRT, [ More … ]
Investigative website reveals that the French forces sent to support their Egyptian counterparts have been involved in at least 19 airstrikes against civilians in Egypt between 2016 and 2018. Disclose, an investigative website published a [ More … ]
Egyptian multi-billionaire and business tycoon Naguib Sawiris says involvement of state and army companies in business makes it unfair. Naguib Sawiris has warned that the government’s involvement in the private sector creates unfair competition and [ More … ]
Egypt’s highest court has rejected appeals from Mohamed El-Baqer, Alaa Abdel Fattah, Dr. Abdel Moneim Aboul-Fotouh and Mohamed al-Qassas against inclusion on the terrorist list. A few days ago, on 18 November, Egypt’s Court of Cassation [ More … ]
Human rights defenders have rushed to condemn the prison sentence against former parliamentarian Ziad El-Elaimy, journalists Hisham Fouad and Hossam Moanis, and three others, The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies and seven other Egyptian [ More … ]
An Egyptian court sentences former MP and one of the January Revolution icons Ziad El-Elaimy to five years in prison on false news charge An Egyptian emergency state security misdemeanor court on Wednesday sentenced prominent [ More … ]
A human rights organization says in an analysis that Egypt’s National Strategy for Human Rights is just a ruse to show international community and donor states that political reform is underway The Cairo Institute for [ More … ]
Human rights organizations say treatment of Dr. Salah Soltan, father of Mohamed Soltan, may amount to enforced disappearance as well as torture An alliance of leading human rights organizations have voiced serious concern about Egypt’s [ More … ]
There’s something farcical, but entirely rational, about the way authoritarians such as Egypt’s Sisi invoke legal justifications for repression, says Steven Cook. “Last week, Egypt’s House of Representatives approved amendments to the country’s anti-terrorism law [ More … ]
Sudan security forces raided the home of Al Jazeera’s Khartoum bureau chief, El Musalmi El Kabbashi, and arrested him on Sunday, a day after street protests across Sudan against the military takeover, reported Reuters. Security [ More … ]
A few days ago a footage of Egyptian students chanting “My blood is Palestinian” went viral. The students were on a trip to Dahab, Sinai, when they were surprised by learning that some Israelis were [ More … ]
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