An Egyptian court has sentenced 10 members of the Muslim Brotherhood group to death for allegedly coordinating and planning attacks on the police, charges which defendants and their families denied. A Twitter account called Mr. [ More … ]
Egypt has a sharp shortage in physicians despite thousands of medical students graduating annually, mainly due to immigration of physicians from the country. Egypt is facing an unprecedented wave of immigration by physicians, which raises [ More … ]
The Biden administration has decided to deny $130 million of military aid allocated for Egypt over the country’s failure to comply with human rights conditions laid out by the State Department, according to a senior [ More … ]
Sisi has recently allocated 36 Nile islands and one marine island to the Egyptian armed forces Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has signed a decree handing over ownership of 37 islands to the military, overriding a [ More … ]
In a letter to the US secretary of state, lawmakers described Egypt’s human rights violations as “pervasive and systemic”. House Democrats on Tuesday urged Secretary of State Antony Blinken to reprogram a portion of Egypt’s [ More … ]
On the anniversary of Egypt’s January revolution that led to overthrowing dictator Hosni Mubarak, the rights situation in Egypt seems dire, and social media activists slam General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s comments on human rights. As [ More … ]
Yemeni Houthis warned they would face ‘escalation with escalation’ following attack on detention center that left more than 100 dead Yemen’s Houthi rebels have threatened further escalation after two ballistic missiles launched by the group [ More … ]
Eritrean asylum seekers Alem Tesfay Abraham and Kibrom Adhanom arrived in Canada on January 20 after spending nearly a decade arbitrarily detained in Egypt. Alem and Kibrom were detained in Egypt since 2012 and 2013, [ More … ]
The United Nations Envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, on Thursday met with the Saudi Deputy Defense Minister, Khalid Bin Salman Al-Saud, in the Saudi capital city of Riyadh, where they discussed ways to end the [ More … ]
Egypt’s cabinet has agreed to extend the deadline for NGOs to register with the state or face dissolution, but a longer timeline does not fix the law’s many repressive elements The Egyptian cabinet agreed yesterday, [ More … ]
The central banks of Turkey and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have inked a swap agreement with a nominal size of 18 billion UAE dirhams and TL 64 billion ($4.7 billion), the Central Bank of [ More … ]
Rights groups say freedoms ‘face an imminent peril’ after police used water cannons and tear gas at a demonstration against President Kais Saied last week Tunisian human rights groups have warned that freedoms in the [ More … ]
In devotion of Robert Springborg’s description of Egypt as “beggar state”, with respect to reliance on foreign support, South Korea announces it will lend Egypt $1bn, as soft loan South Korea has announced that it [ More … ]
When criticized on human rights violations during the World Youth Forum that he organizes every year, Sisi said Egyptians don’t find food. A few days later, his security forces arrested an opposition activist whose plane [ More … ]
Sisi says the country spent $400 billion to address poverty and improve people’s living Three days ago, Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Egypt spent 400 billion dollars over the past seven years to tackle poverty, [ More … ]
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