Macron visited Egypt in January, and reportedly pressed Sisi on his rights record and urged him to respect freedoms Rights groups Thursday urged French President Emmanuel Macron to denounce the “worsening human rights crisis” under [ More … ]
Nabeel Shaath’s son Ramy has been held since early July, possibly over his ‘opposition to Trump’s Deal of the Century’ Ramy Shaath, whose father is former senior Palestinian diplomat and negotiator Nabeel Shaath, has been [ More … ]
Based on new official figures released in Egypt, 32 percent of Egyptians live in poverty. This phenomenon of rising poverty amid high growth is reminiscent of the situation just before the uprising in 2011, when [ More … ]
Head of the Egyptian Revolutionary Council (ERC) Maha Azzam has written to the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet Jeria urging her to publicly condemn the regional conference on torture which will be [ More … ]
The Egyptian government has announced a new trading system for cotton, which would be sold through public bidding, raising the ire of farmers who already suffer from severe losses. In an attempt to restore the [ More … ]
Human rights activists on Thursday criticized a United Nations decision to hold a conference in Cairo on torture with an Egyptian state organization. “It’s illogical for a country where torture is systematic to host a [ More … ]
Rights groups keep demanding probe into deadly crackdown on Egyptians protesting against Mohamed Morsi’s overthrow. Six years ago, Egyptian security forces killed hundreds of supporters of Mohamed Morsi, the country’s first democratically elected president, in [ More … ]
More than half a decade after ‘ Rabaa massacre ‘ the deadly crackdown of supporters of the first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi, human rights activists still call for a probe. Six years ago, Egypt witnessed [ More … ]
An Egyptian court has extended the pretrial detention of prominent opposition member and former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh for another 45 days on charges of communicating with entities opposed to the Egyptian state [ More … ]
Egypt’s Al-Sisi has issued a resolution allocating 47 state-owned islands in the Red Sea to the army, stating that the land is of strategic military importance. Most of the islands are currently used for tourism [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities have again blocked the website of (Void Egypt Prisons) campaign, an electronic platform (https://batilsegnak.online/) that was launched by Egyptian opposition figures from across the political spectrum for the solidarity with political detainees, gaining [ More … ]
The “Void Egypt Prisons” campaign has attracted more than 65,000 votes online in solidarity with political prisoners, demanding their release, three days after its launch. The number of signatories, on Wednesday, approached 70 thousand. The [ More … ]
A powerful car bomb explosion outside a hospital in Egypt’s capital killed at least 20 people and injured dozens more, Egyptian authorities said, in the deadliest terrorist attack in Cairo in more than two years. [ More … ]
Amendments to Egypt’s constitution proposed and agreed by a parliamentary chamber dominated by supporters of General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi have, in the words of his political opponents, concentrated more power in the hands of one [ More … ]
The Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation announced the return of Minister Mohamed Abdel-Ati from a three-day overseas tour to Sudan and Ethiopia to discuss the latest developments in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam [ More … ]
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