The Batel (Void) Campaign has called, in a statement, on all Egyptians at home and abroad to demonstrate on the ninth anniversary of the January 25 revolution The popular campaign called on Egyptians to take [ More … ]
Mustafa Kassem, American citizen who had been held in Egyptian prison for past five years, died on Monday after series of hunger strikes Two US Senators called on President Donald Trump to “immediately” sanction Egypt [ More … ]
Moustafa Kassem, detained in Cairo in 2013 and suffering from serious medical problems, had protested his innocence. An American imprisoned in Egypt for six years on what he insisted were false charges, and whose case [ More … ]
The friends and family of prisoners in Egypt have launched a social media campaign to raise awareness of the dire conditions inside Egypt’s prisons, according to MEMO Under a number of hashtags including the Arabic for [ More … ]
Detainees of the Scorpion Prison continue to be subjected to one of the most brutal ways of slow death, where the prison authority deprives them of their basic rights and exposes them to torture and [ More … ]
Egypt has blamed Ethiopia for the failure of the latest round of talks on the construction of a controversial Nile dam, a critical issue for Cairo as it seeks to protect its main source of [ More … ]
Against the backdrop of the death of a detainee in the Scorpion Prison, south of Cairo, families of the notorious prison detainees are calling for an urgent investigation into what they considered a “horrific murder”. [ More … ]
The Egyptian National Action Group has condemned what it called “the coup regime’s attempt to plunge the Egyptian army into the ongoing battles in Libya, with the complicity of some army commanders against the general [ More … ]
The body of Mariam, the first female political prisoner to die in prison due to deliberate medical negligence, is still kept at the Morgue as all her family members are either killed or in prison [ More … ]
After crash, Egyptian authorities said bomb was probably responsible and reportedly withheld key evidence from French investigators, citing the secrecy of terrorism inquiry When an EgyptAir flight crashed on its way from Paris to Cairo [ More … ]
US stops sending sniffer dogs to Egypt, Jordan after seven died of ‘negligence’ Several of the animals died in Egypt and Jordan due to lack of care, says US State Department The United States announced [ More … ]
Giulio Regeni, an Italian student tortured and murdered in Cairo in 2016, was ensnared in a “spider’s web” spun by the Egyptian security services in the weeks leading up to his death, said Rome prosecutors. [ More … ]
The dispute with Ethiopia over control of the Nile is emblematic of the Egyptian president’s short-sightedness, and it’s a consistent pattern. Yesterday in Washington, officials from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan met to discuss the ongoing [ More … ]
The irrigation ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan have met in Cairo for a new round of talks aimed at resolving a dispute over a multibillion-dollar dam being built by the Ethiopian government. The two-day [ More … ]
Western correspondents get to choose when they face danger. Journalists in Egypt deal with it every day – Richard Hall’s Independent Article There are no safety provisions for independent journalists in Egypt and other authoritarian [ More … ]
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