Three journalists from Mada Masr, Egypt’s most prominent independent news outlet, have been referred to trial on charges of offending pro-regime members of parliament. The allegedly offended MPs belong to from the pro-government “Nation’s Future” [ More … ]
A Saudi court issues prison sentences from ten to eighteen years to ten Nubian Egyptians who were arrested after holding a community event in 2019 Saudi Arabia’s Specialized Criminal Court on 10 October handed prison [ More … ]
Egypt’s chief prosecutor has referred a well-known businessman to trial on charges of sexually assaulting seven girls in an orphanage he founded Mohamed el Amin’s alleged victims, all teenage girls, claimed he abused them in [ More … ]
A well-known YouTuber and political activist said he watched the death moment of the killing of Italian doctoral student Giulio Regeni in Egypt. Meanwhile, Patrick Zaki, the trial of a human rights advocate that had [ More … ]
A preliminary Italian court hearing for reopening the Giulio Regeni trial was held in Rome on 10 January 2022. Regeni, an Italian postgraduate student at Cambridge University, was conducting research in Cairo when he disappeared [ More … ]
Lawyers of Ziad El-Elaimy, a former parliamentarian, and journalists Hisham Fouad and Hossam Moanis have finally been able to present their defense on Oct. 6, but the trial was adjourned to Oct. 20, according to [ More … ]
Confidential UAE document reveals Mohammed bin Salman is concerned the journalist’s murder could become a heavily debated topic during the upcoming US election The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman is determined to [ More … ]
Saud al-Qahtani, a Saudi royal adviser fired over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi is not among the 11 suspects on trial at secretive hearings in Riyadh despite Saudi pledges to bring those responsible to [ More … ]
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia wants the death penalty for my father, and its judiciary is being pushed far from any semblance of the rule of law and due process, Abdullah Alaoudh* says in an [ More … ]
Dr. Said Elhaj* The term “Parallel Entity” or “Parallel Organization” in Turkey refers to the dominant leadership of the “Service Movement” (in Turkish: Hizmet Hareketi), that was established by Fethullah Gulen. ‘Hizmet Hareketi’, also referred [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay* The July 15 coup attempt and the Fetullah Terror Organization (FETÖ) cases continue full speed ahead in all provinces. In the courts, especially established to present all the dimensions of the most insidious [ More … ]
The trial of prominent human rights defender Mudawi Ibrahim Adam Wednesday has begun in Khartoum amid a large presence from activists and foreign diplomats, reported Sudan Tribune. Adam, a university professor and Chair of the [ More … ]
Dozens of people protested in front of Ankara court as defendants arrive The first day of the trial of the main suspects in last year’s attempted coup in Turkey began Monday. There were heavy security [ More … ]
Egypt’s top appeals court found Hosni Mubarak innocent on the involvement in the killing of protesters on January 25 Revolution that toppled his 30-year rule in 2011. Mubarak’s retrial captivated viewers when he appeared in [ More … ]
BY: İbrahim Karagül* Those who staged the July 15 coup attempt and civil war project knew very well what kind of duty they were tasked with, what kind of international project July 15 was, that they [ More … ]
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