Five years on, there is still no justice for the state-sanctioned murder of Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia’s Istanbul consulate, states Amnesty International. Ahead of the five-year anniversary on 2 October since the state-sanctioned murder [ More … ]
Italy’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday, September 27, 2023 ended a stalemate on the trial in absentia in Italy of four Egyptian intelligence officers on suspicion of torturing to death Italian student Giulio Regeni in Cairo [ More … ]
The federal corruption indictment against the New Jersey Democrat comes just over a week after the Biden administration said it would release restricted military aid to Egypt. US military assistance to Egypt is facing increased [ More … ]
“In the wake of Menendez’s indictment for corruption by the Egyptian government, the United States should suspend the military aid to Egypt,” stated DAWN The Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) said: “The U.S. [ More … ]
Security researchers say the leading Egyptian opposition politician Ahmed Altantawi was targeted with Predator spyware after announcing a president bid The leading Egyptian opposition politician was targeted with spyware multiple times after announcing a presidential [ More … ]
Consolidating public resources is an obvious step to help alleviate Egypt’s growing debt burden, but one that Sisi’s regime avoids at all costs, states Carnegie. On July 31, Egyptian Minister of Finance Mohamed Maati announced [ More … ]
Egypt is in talks with an Abu Dhabi-based bank for a loan facility that would finance wheat purchases from Kazakhstan, reported Reuters, citing three traders. The move could give Egypt a cheap alternative to grain [ More … ]
Gamal Ziada, father of human rights defender Ahmed Ziada, was released from a 28-day detention for his son’s outspoken criticism of the Egyptian government The father of Belgium-based Egyptian journalist and human rights advocate Ahmed [ More … ]
Egypt will switch to sourcing almost half a million tons of wheat from France and Bulgaria, after Moscow blocked the supply of Russian grain, according to people familiar with the matter, reported Bloomberg. Moscow objected [ More … ]
Seven Egyptian soldiers were killed last Sunday night, in a mysterious explosion in an air defense base in North Sinai Governorate, east of the country, reported al-araby al-Jadeed. An Islamic State-linked insurgency has brewed for [ More … ]
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has overruled congressional restrictions on U.S. military aid tied to Egypt’s dismal human rights record Prioritizing U.S. national security interests over human rights, the Biden administration has approved $235 [ More … ]
Hisham Kassem, the prominent critic of the Sisi government, was convicted of slander, defamation and verbally assaulting a police officer according to Egyptian rights group. An Egyptian court has sentenced political activist Hisham Kassem to [ More … ]
The United States will provide security assistance to Egypt despite the repression practiced by the Sisi regime against dissent, says Human Rights Watch. Doing so, the rights watchdog states, the Biden Administration is waiving human [ More … ]
Egypt is considering holding presidential elections before the end of 2023, according to people familiar with the matter, an earlier than expected date as the North African nation of 105 million people grapples with its [ More … ]
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