On the occasion of the International Women Human Rights Defenders Day, many courageous women activists detained in Egypt for undertaking the vital work of fighting for human rights in Egypt must be released. Those women [ More … ]
Egypt’s newly flexible currency is still too tame for a market that’s bracing for more disruption ahead according to Bloomberg. Although Egypt has allowed the pound to slide more than almost every other currency in [ More … ]
Turkiye-Syria ties could develop in the future in a similar manner to how Turkiye developed ties with Egypt, Turkish President said Sunday. “Just as Turkiye-Egypt relations started to normalize, in the next period it can [ More … ]
Egypt’s finances remain in a precarious state despite two major currency devaluations this year and a brand new $3 billion International Monetary Fund rescue package, economists say. With debt interest payments set to soak up [ More … ]
The World Justice Project (WJP) has ranked Egypt 135th out of 140 countries on the Rule of Law Index. The 2022 WJP Rule of Law Index evaluates 140 countries and jurisdictions around the world. For [ More … ]
The COP27 may have ended, but many of the Egyptians preemptively detained in connection with calls for protests during the conference remain behind bars. Egyptian authorities arrested hundreds of people around the country leading up [ More … ]
The resolution adopted by the European Parliament’s plenary vote highlights the lack of improvement in Egypt’s dire human rights situation and calls for strong measures to address human rights crisis in Egypt. The European Parliament [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia is in discussions with Turkiye to deposit $5 billion in the Turkish Central Bank, Reuters reported a spokesman of the Ministry of Finance in Riyadh as saying on Tuesday. “We are in final [ More … ]
Ten months after emergence of a footage showing Egyptian police seemingly torturing detainees in a Cairo police station, 22 people have now been handed long prison sentences—not for engaging in torture, but for exposing it. [ More … ]
New intelligence collected from downed Iranian drones in Ukraine shows that a majority of the aircrafts’ parts are manufactured by companies in the U.S., Europe and other allied nations, reported the Wall Street Journal. This [ More … ]
World leaders, politicians, diplomats and royalty have begun to arrive in Qatar before the World Cup kicks off on Sunday. Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived [ More … ]
As COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh comes to an end, 4 UN rapporteurs have condemned authorities’ “intimidation, harassment, and surveillance of climate activists and civil society.” At the time when the UN climate conference, COP27, held [ More … ]
Israel’s Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir agree to legalise controversial evacuated settlement outposts in the West Bank Incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised his far-right ally Itamar Ben Gvir that the West Bank illegal settler [ More … ]
Sexual assault of detainee Omar Mohamed Ali in the notorious Badr Prison has been denounced by six Egyptian human rights organizations. The Aassociation for Freedom of Thought and Expression, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights [ More … ]
“The United Arab Emirates steered U.S. foreign policy in its favor through a series of legal and illegal exploits, according to an unprecedented U.S. intelligence document,” says John Hudson. In what was described as the [ More … ]
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