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 … ]
The police raid came a day after Mada Masr editor Shady Zalat was arrested by Egyptian security forces. Egyptian security forces raided the office of what is widely described as the country’s last independent news [ More … ]
An expanding network of enterprises owned by the armed forces blocks much-needed reforms, says Timothy Kaldas in a recent report published in Bloomberg. “As Egypt marks the third anniversary of its bailout by the International [ More … ]
Aisha al-Shater has been held in dire conditions in prison since her arrest last year, according to rights groups Aisha Shater, an Egyptian activist and daughter of senior Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat al-Shater, could die in prison [ More … ]
Washington may impose sanctions on Egypt under a US law that targets purchases of military equipment from Russia. According to Reuters, The United States could impose sanctions on Egypt and block it from future military sales if [ More … ]
Egypt has faced strong criticism at a United Nations review of its rights record, with diplomats voicing alarm over detention conditions and shrinking freedoms in the country recently rocked by mass protests. The United States and other Western [ More … ]
First, democratically-elected President Mohammed Morsi died while standing trial for charges legal observers said were politically motivated. An independent panel of United Nations experts has said the death of former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi in [ More … ]
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