Internet personalities in Egypt are the target of a government campaign based on trumped up charges that rights activists say violate free speech. Egyptians who post viral content, even if it appears apolitical, are increasingly [ More … ]
The competent investigative authorities in Egypt have ordered the imprisonment of Mohamed Hossam El-Din, known as “Bissa” and Basma Hegazi, known as “Warda”, for 15 days pending investigations. The investigation authorities accused the defendants of [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities have continued to throw more activista and journalists behind bars, even as the have released some journalists to improve the regime’s image ahead of the upcoming national dialogue. Darb news website three days [ More … ]
The Egyptian police have arrested seven people who were protesting demolition of their homes in the strategic Nile island of Warraq The Egyptian authorities have earmarked more than 2,000 homes in Warraq Island for demolition [ More … ]
Emirates says arrest of Asim Ghafoor, an American citizen, was coordinated with the US to ‘combat transnational crimes’. The United Arab Emirates has sentenced an American citizen and the former lawyer of Jamal Khashoggi — [ More … ]
When criticized on human rights violations during the World Youth Forum that he organizes every year, Sisi said Egyptians don’t find food. A few days later, his security forces arrested an opposition activist whose plane [ More … ]
US authorities have arrested a New York man who spied on political opponents of Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the Justice Department said. Pierre Girgis, 39, was charged in New York with acting illegally as an [ More … ]
When critics of the Sisi regime speak freely outside Egypt and expose corruption and violations, their families inside pay the price. Egyptian police have jailed the relatives of Abdullah El-Sherif, one of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s [ More … ]
Sudan security forces raided the home of Al Jazeera’s Khartoum bureau chief, El Musalmi El Kabbashi, and arrested him on Sunday, a day after street protests across Sudan against the military takeover, reported Reuters. Security [ More … ]
Egypt has arrested Dr. Ayman Mansour Nada, a media professor who criticized pro-regime media figures close to the regime. Rassd News Network posted a tweet, saying: Professor of Mass Communication at Cairo University Dr. Ayman [ More … ]
Egyptian security forces raided the homes of six relatives of an outspoken Egyptian American activist, arresting and imprisoning two cousins in defiance of calls by the Biden administration for the Egyptian government to improve its [ More … ]
While almost all world countries are honoring doctors and celebrating medical professions, Egypt is jailing its doctors, amid hiking numbers of coronavirus infections. [ More … ]
Egypt’s Juhayna Food Industries board has appointed Seif El Din Thabet as acting chairman, the company said in a statement a day after its chairman was arrested. The company, Egypt’s largest dairy products and juices [ More … ]
Karim Ennarah was detained in the resort town of Dahab in South Sinai while on vacation, EIPR said in a statement Egyptian authorities arrested a human rights defender on Wednesday, just a few days after his colleague [ 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 … ]
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