After a lawyer, his wife, and his brother were arrested from a café in Damanhour, a city in Lower Egypt, his mother and two sisters were also arrested after enquiring about his whereabouts. According to [ More … ]
Esraa Abdel Fattah was detained on Saturday, October 12 by plainclothes police officers and the following morning another journalist Mostafa al-Khatib was also arrested. These arrests came after Italian journalist Francesca Borri was detained on [ More … ]
Egypt has detained two prominent activists who played key roles in the 2011 revolution, activists and a rights group said, the latest in a wave of arrests in recent weeks. Blogger and journalist Esraa Abdel [ More … ]
A series of sophisticated cyberattacks targeting Egyptian journalists, academics, lawyers, opposition politicians, and human rights activists have been traced to Egyptian government offices, a cybersecurity firm has found. The attackers installed software on the targets’ [ More … ]
In late September, protests erupted throughout Egypt in response to the widespread and systemic corruption of the regime of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Predictably, the Egyptian security forces responded with a heavy hand, arresting thousands of [ More … ]
After several attempts throughout the past three years, Nashaat Al-Dehi, a pro-regime TV presenter, was able to interview the leader of (FETO) the Fethullah Gulen Organization (Classified as a terrorist organization in Turkey and many [ More … ]
It all started on Friday 20 September. Tens of hundreds of people took to the streets across Egypt calling for the removal of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Not a big deal for a population of 100 [ More … ]
Egypt’s strongman repeats Hosni Mubarak’s errors, to everyone’s peril. Several years ago, in Cairo, I asked Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to name Hosni Mubarak’s biggest mistake. “He stayed in power for a long time,” Egypt’s sixth [ More … ]
At the UN general assembly in New York, Donald Trump lauded Mr Sisi as ‘a great leader’ when asked about the protests; not a great surprise since he had previously reportedly hailed him as ‘my [ More … ]
The arrest campaign by Egyptian security forces against political activists, party and trade union leaders, and opposition forces has continued in a number of Egyptian governorates and cities, coinciding with calls to take to the [ More … ]
Suddenly, all fear appeared to have dissipated. Last Friday, Egyptians could hardly believe their eyes as they watched videos posted almost simultaneously on social media of demonstrations at Tahrir Square in Cairo as well as [ More … ]
The state-owned Egyptian media regulator revealed that it was “likely” that the internationally renowned news website BBC alongside other news websites have been blocked in Egypt for their “inaccurate” coverage small-scaled protests that took place [ More … ]
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday gave strong backing to Egyptian dictator Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as Sisi grapples with protests at home – saying the United States and Egypt have a great long-term relationship. “Everybody [ More … ]
Under the government of General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt, so little dissent is allowed — and what little there is comes at such a high price — that when just a few hundred people [ More … ]
Human Rights Watch calls for ‘immediate release’ of those arrested in protests demanding president’s resignation Egyptian security forces clashed with hundreds of anti-government protesters in the seaport city of Suez on Saturday, firing tear gas [ More … ]
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