Despite the regime’s tight security grip and the escalating arrests, demonstrators take to streets in ‘Friday of Wrath’ protests, for the sixth day in a row. Friday was another day of protests as anger over [ More … ]
Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi issued a decree offering exceptional pensions to non-commissioned officers and former conscripts in the Armed Forces and their dependents, adding to a series of military privileges that have been expanding since [ More … ]
For the second day in a row, popular protests continued in several spots in Egypt against the rule of General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Following security forces’ attack on demonstrators, the presidential residence in Aswan, Upper [ More … ]
Video clips on social media show demonstrators calling on Egypt’s Abdel Fatah al-Sisi to step down Hundreds of anti-government protesters took to the streets in the Egyptian governorate of Giza and some other governorates, such [ More … ]
A committee specialising in the seizure of assets belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has filed a lawsuit to nationalise the funds of 89 members of the group, including the heirs of the deceased [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities have given violators until 30 September to apply for reconciliation, an expensive process for many low-income citizens, Middle East Eye reported. Anger in Egypt continues to rise as state authorities move ahead with [ More … ]
Prisoners in Egypt’s notorious high-security Aqrab (Scorpion) Prison have gone on hunger strike in protest at the death of a fellow inmate as a result of medical negligence. Dr. Amro Abou Khalil, a psychiatrist held [ More … ]
One more Egyptian political detainee died in the notorious Scorpion prison Wednesday, 3 September, as a result of medical negligence, his family and human rights advocates said on Facebook. Ahmed Abdelnabi, 63, suffered from “multiple [ More … ]
Security sources on Tuesday said that authorities have arrested the founder of Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper, businessman Salah Diab, as allegedly part of an investigation regarding involvement in financial violations. 16 years ago, Diab embarked on [ More … ]
In the six years since Abdel Fatah al-Sisi assumed the presidency in Egypt, the country has devolved into the deepest human rights crisis it has experienced in decades. In the face of this downward spiral, it’s not [ More … ]
Egypt’s National Elections Authority said boycotting the Senate vote should result in prosecution Egypt’s election commission on Wednesday announced it would refer around 45 million citizens who did not vote in this month’s Senate elections to [ More … ]
Chief of Hamas political bureau Ismail Haniyeh announced on Friday his movement’s opposition to Egyptian support for the UAE-Israel normalization deal. Speaking to TRT World, Haniyeh criticized the UAE-Israel deal and reiterated that it came about [ More … ]
Amnesty International calls upon authorities to allow family visits as well as regular contacts with lawyers to all detainees in Sisi’s prisons Amnesty has called on the coup authorities in Egypt to allow all detainees [ More … ]
Today, August 14, marks the seventh anniversary of the brutal dispersal of a peaceful sit-in in Cairo’s Rabaa Square by tens of thousands of supporters of late President Mohamed Morsi, protesting peacefully the military coup [ More … ]
The 66-year-old anti-Sisi Egyptian politician had been barred from receiving visitors for the past six months, according to his lawyer Dr. Essam el-Erian, a senior leader in Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and former Member of Parliament, [ More … ]
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