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 … ]
The UAE State Security Agency has secretly arrested scores of Emiratis, Palestinians and Jordanians living in the UAE for opposing Abu-Dhabi’s peace deal with Israel. The Emirates Leaks website quoted human rights sources as saying [ More … ]
Egyptian security forces have reportedly launched a new arrest campaign against activists in various cities, ignoring calls for the release of detainees made by international human rights organizations due to the fear of spreading the [ 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 … ]
A London-based Saudi rights group says the Saudi citizens were taken from their homes in Riyadh and Jeddah Saudi Arabia has detained at least eight people, including intellectuals, writers and entrepreneurs, the London-based Saudi rights [ 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 … ]
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