Aisha Khairat Al-Shater has been transferred to Al-Qanater Prison hospital after her health deteriorated in the one-meter square cell in which she is being held in solitary confinement. The daughter of the deputy leader of [ More … ]
Abdullah Morsi, who was an outspoken government critic, died at the Oasis hospital in Giza. The youngest son of late Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi died of an alleged heart attack at a hospital in Cairo, sources told [ More … ]
The owner of Amlak Contracting, Mohammed Ali, has been accused of ‘high treason’ for a video he posted on Facebook detailing corruption in Sisi’s regime An Egyptian lawyer on Wednesday demanded a military contractor should [ More … ]
Facebook deleted videos uploaded by an Egyptian actor and businessman on his Facebook page revealing that Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, his wife, and some military leaders have wasted billions of Egyptian pounds. Egyptian actor and [ More … ]
Egypt’s decision to scrap a monthly fixed customs exchange rate could lead to higher inflation in the coming months if the Egyptian pound declines significantly against the dollar, analysts said. Egypt last Sunday cancelled the [ More … ]
Amid threats posed by the Islamic State in Sinai, Egypt’s minister of planning announced $316 million worth of investments in the Sinai Peninsula for fiscal year 2020, plans seen by observers as skeptical. The Al-Monitor [ More … ]
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has criticized an Egyptian judoka, Mohamed Abdelaal, for refusing to shake the hand of his Israeli opponent, Sagi Muki, who defeated the Egyptian in the semifinals of the World Judo Championships. [ More … ]
Egypt’s Official Gazette published on Saturday Decree No. 25 of 2019 issued by Prime Minister Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, which allows disposal of real estate “through direct agreement in urgent cases”. The Prime Minister’s decree allows [ More … ]
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s security forces have killed 17 pro-Muslim Brotherhood persons in the latest incident of extra judicial killing. The security forces claimed that the people killed were involved in a car bomb near the [ More … ]
On Tuesday 17-year-old Alaa Yasser Farouk told lawyers that whilst detained she heard officers electrocuting her father and then was threatened with torture if she did not confess to joining and funding the Muslim Brotherhood. [ More … ]
Despite shameful human rights violations under al-Sisi regime, Trump calls meeting with Sisi in Biarritz ‘great’. US President Donald Trump said on his Twitter account he had held a “great meeting” with Egypt’s Abdel Fattah [ More … ]
Many Egyptians believe their government and its supporters are behind the latest xenophobic campaign targeting Syrian refugees in the country, including attacks on their businesses. The closure of a popular Syrian-owned restaurant in the east [ More … ]
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 … ]
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