Activists and environmentalists have expressed alarm over Egypt’s ability to host the event successfully because of its poor record on human rights. They signed a letter, in which they detailed their concerns about holding Cop27 [ More … ]
The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) that has endured fierce crackdown since 2013 overthrow of Egypt’s first democratic President Mohamed Morsi, has announced it rejects “struggle for power”, reported Reuters, citing Mr. Ibrahim Munir, the group’s deputy [ More … ]
The IMF has announced that Egypt needs to achieve progress on fiscal and structural economic reform as Cairo seeks new support from the fund. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a statement Tuesday that Egypt needs [ More … ]
Family of detained British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah are concerned about his life after prison authorities said he refused visit with his mother last Sunday The family of activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has grown increasingly worried [ More … ]
Tunisian National Salvation Front has declared in a statement that most Tunisians have rejected the “referendum play” and President Saied should resign and hold early elections. The opposition front stressed its adherence to the constitution [ More … ]
Egyptian criminal court asks parliament to amend legislation governing capital punishment to allow live broadcast of execution of the murderer of his university colleague The Mansoura Criminal Court has asked parliament to amend the law [ More … ]
The co-chairs of US Congress’s Egypt Human Rights Caucus have issued a statement calling for greater oversight of U.S. security assistance to Egypt and accusing Egypt’s government of “trying to paper over its abuses rather [ More … ]
Mariam, daughter of businessman Safwan Thabet who is “behind bars for resisting security agency demands”, has announced in a series of tweets that the health conditions of her father have deteriorated. Mariam expressed her concerns [ More … ]
Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi traveled to Germany, but human rights again took a backseat to geopolitical concerns. Meanwhile, the national dialogue’s board of trustees held its second planning meeting, but NGOs are questioning authorities’ seriousness [ More … ]
Based on Egypt’s financial crisis following Covid-19 pandemic, the country’s children’s cancer hospital is set to close, where the hospital in the Nile Delta is under the threat of closure due to soaring costs and [ More … ]
US President Joe Biden on Saturday 16 July actually met with Egypt’s dictator Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, calling him his “valuable, valuable friend“, to “reaffirm our shared commitment to the U.S.-Egypt strategic partnership, and to discuss [ More … ]
Emirates says arrest of Asim Ghafoor, an American citizen, was coordinated with the US to ‘combat transnational crimes’. The United Arab Emirates has sentenced an American citizen and the former lawyer of Jamal Khashoggi — [ More … ]
Amr Imam is a human rights defender and lawyer who was arrested at his home in Maadi, Cairo, by the police on 16 October 2019. Amr’s arrest came after the lawyer announced his intention to [ More … ]
The New York Times has analyzed handwritten lists of names to track the thousands of people trapped in a system where detention can be renewed indefinitely, making a mockery of the legal limits. A newly [ More … ]
Egyptian Official Gazette on 5 July published a decree issued by the President of the Republic, granting several academic degrees to graduates of military academies. Based on the decision, a graduate of the Military Academy [ More … ]
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