Former MP and prominent Muslim Brotherhood politician Hisham Hanafi, 61, dies in prison from medical negligence, according to his family. Hisham al-Qadi Hanafi, a former Egyptian MP with the Muslim Brotherhood, died on Thursday in [ More … ]
Palestinian factions have condemned Tuesday’s meeting between Mahmoud Abbas and Benny Gantz, near Tel Aviv, Anadolu Agency reported. Palestinian officials said the meeting between President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz dwelt on [ More … ]
Egypt’s Sisi has imposed a ban on growing ornamental plants under the pretext of saving water for fruitful crops, which has sparked wide-range anger on social networking sites. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued orders to the [ More … ]
Dr. Mahmoud Ezzat, 77, says he has not been allowed to leave his solitary cell for 16 months, and that he has not been able to meet his lawyers or family. Dr. Mahmoud Ezzat, the [ More … ]
Former Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki described the four-year jail sentence handed to him as “a continuation of tampering”, and stressed that “it means nothing, because it was issued by illegal parties.” “I can find nothing [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia’s National Debt Management Centre (NDMC) said it has completed its 125 billion riyal ($33.3 billion) borrowing plan for 2021. Saudi Finance Minister and Chairman of the NDMC, Mohammed Bin Abdullah Al-Jadaan, announced that [ More … ]
Sanaa Seif’s brother Alaa Abdel Fattah was sentenced earlier this week to five years in prison despite an international outcry Egyptian authorities released the prominent activist Sanaa Seif on Thursday after serving a prison term [ More … ]
The most recent verdict against three prominent activists, including Alaa Abdel Fattah, the icon of the January Revolution (2011) has raised widespread international condemnations, especially that the verdict was issued by an emergency court. Last [ More … ]
Egyptian activist and January Revolution icon Alaa Abdel Fattah sentenced to 5 years in prison, says judicial source Prominent Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah was sentenced to five years in prison on Monday, according to [ More … ]
The U.S. dollar and euro took an over 22% nosedive late Monday after the statements of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in which he detailed Turkey’s steps to battle high inflation and fluctuating currency rates. [ More … ]
The phone of Ayman Nour, prominent exiled Egyptian dissident and 2005 presidential candidate, was hacked by two separate pieces of government-operated spyware, according to Citizen Lab, an internet security watchdog. One piece of the malware [ More … ]
Four leaders of the Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) are still behind bars as their latest hearing was again postponed, while courts extended the pretrial detentions of numerous political prisoners. After spending more [ More … ]
A consortium of US-Emirati companies have won a bid to turn complex into a commercial project Mogamma el-Tahrir, a gigantic building in the heart of downtown Cairo, will be converted into a luxury hotel, according [ More … ]
Some observers say the U.S. president’s ‘democracy’ gathering is another failed move to restore America’s global image How Should the Biden Administration Support Human Rights and Democracy in the Middle East and North Africa? In [ More … ]
When critics of the Sisi regime speak freely outside Egypt and expose corruption and violations, their families inside pay the price. Egyptian police have jailed the relatives of Abdullah El-Sherif, one of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s [ More … ]
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