This spring, as Egypt’s parliament debated handing General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi greater power and allowing him to govern until 2030. Speaker Ali Abdelaal declared the proposals were the will of the nation’s legislature. The ideas, [ More … ]
Amnesty International has condemned the Egyptian authorities’ “revolving door” practice of re-imprisoning activists, journalists and others after their release from detention is ordered by judges. Al Jazeera producer and Ola Qaradawi are among those immediately [ More … ]
Egyptian high school students protested after technical problems had ruined school exams. The teenagers were met with violence by security forces as they decried ‘failed education system’, following failure of tablets, WiFi and much more. [ More … ]
Ahmed Badawy, an engineer and youth activist with two political parties, wrote on Twitter on Sunday that he had been arrested, using the widely used hashtag “Go down, say No.”He posted a picture of himself [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia has arrested at least eight people, including two dual U.S.-Saudi citizens, in an apparent crackdown on supporters of women activists whose trial has drawn condemnation from abroad, an associate and a rights group [ More … ]
The family of a British teenager imprisoned in Egypt after taking a photograph that included an army helicopter has demanded that British MPs speak out for him, as they did for Matthew Hedges. Shareen Nawaz, the [ More … ]
The Egyptian North Cairo Criminal Court, Sunday, arrested Mohsen Qurani Abdel Razek, who turned out to be a lawyer defending one of the detainees during the 35th trial session of 215 people opposed to the military [ More … ]
Amnesty International says Egyptian authorities have arrested 19 rights lawyers and activists, including eight women, as part of the country’s ongoing crackdown on civil society. The London-based advocacy group says in a Thursday statement that [ More … ]
General Khalifa Haftar’s forces in Eastern Libya on Monday captured a former Egyptian special forces officer wanted by Cairo for suspected Islamist militant activities, a Libyan military spokesman said, accrding to Reuters. Hisham al-Ashmawy, one [ More … ]
The Egyptian authorities arrested the parents of a former university student, Anas Al-Mahdi, who was killed by the police in 2015. “My parents have been arrested by the Egyptian police,” Al-Mahdi’s sister, Hind, wrote on [ More … ]
Egyptian police arrested 21 people for taking part in protests against the government’s surprise decision to hike fares on Cairo’s subway as part of austerity measures meant to restore the economy, officials said on Saturday. [ More … ]
The former Egyptian army chief-of-staff General Sami Anan, who was detained by the Egyptian authorities on 23 January, is being held at a military prison in Cairo, according to his lawyer on Saturday. For six days [ More … ]
Days after al-Sisi threatens those who will try to seek the presidential chair, a former Egyptian army general who planned to challenge Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in this year’s Egyptian elections, has been arrested days after declaring his [ More … ]
Israeli police detained Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the northern branch of the outlawed Islamic Movement in Israel, on Tuesday morning and transferred him for interrogation “over suspicions of his involvement and support of [ More … ]
Turkish security forces detained at least 645 foreign nationals over the past week as they tried to cross into Europe illegally from western Turkey’s Izmir province. The detentions came as part of operations targeting illegal [ More … ]
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