Promise of the revolution has given way to stifled dissent, reduced foreign investment and a decline in regional influence Ten years ago today, Egyptians fired the imagination of the world when they toppled Hosni Mubarak. [ More … ]
An Egyptian court has ruled for the seizure and confiscation of the assets of 89 Muslim Brotherhood members, including the country’s first and only democratically-elected President Mohammed Morsi. According to the state-owned daily Akhbar al-Youm, [ More … ]
First, democratically-elected President Mohammed Morsi died while standing trial for charges legal observers said were politically motivated. An independent panel of United Nations experts has said the death of former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi in [ More … ]
Abdullah Morsi, who was an outspoken government critic, died at the Oasis hospital in Giza. The youngest son of late Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi died of an alleged heart attack at a hospital in Cairo, sources told [ More … ]
More than half a decade after ‘ Rabaa massacre ‘ the deadly crackdown of supporters of the first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi, human rights activists still call for a probe. Six years ago, Egypt witnessed [ More … ]
The Egyptian authorities are attempting to normalize human rights violations by passing a series of laws to “legalize” their escalating crackdown on freedom of expression, association and assembly, said Amnesty International, six years since recently [ More … ]
The Egyptian government’s widespread violence toward the Muslim Brotherhood and other opposition parties is strengthening them. Deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi fainted and died during an appearance in a Cairo court last month, part of [ More … ]
From the days of ancient Egypt over three millenniums ago when the pharaohs, the God-like Monarchs, ruled the country until the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak’s autocratic regime in 2011, Egypt had never known an elected, [ More … ]
Sadly, the ill treatment Mohamed Morsi received in jail was not unusual. Also, Egyptian officials reportedly threatened Morsi days before death, according to MEE. When Egypt’s first and only elected president, Mohamed Morsi, dropped dead in [ More … ]
Conditions surrounding death of Egypt’s first democratically elected president highlight dismal reality endured by thousands languishing in Egypt’s jails. The death of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has cast the spotlight on the dire conditions faced by [ More … ]
Dr Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first and only democratically elected president, died in a cage. In a glass box in a Cairo courtroom this past Monday, in visibly poor health, he stood up for the latest [ More … ]
By: AMR DARRAG and YEHIA HAMED We have been aware of the Egyptian foreign ministry’s statement regarding the deliberate murder of president Mohammad Morsi, in which the ministry’s spokesperson condemned United Nations High Commissioner for [ More … ]
The death of a former president in most countries around the world would normally make headline news domestically. But not the case for Egypt, where ex-President Mohammed Morsi died at the age of 67 on [ More … ]
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