Amnesty International criticized the Egyptian authorities for pushing through new media and cybercrime laws that would give the state near-total control over print, online and broadcast media. The London-based organization called the Egyptian parliament to [ More … ]
Egyptian former anti-corruption chief Hisham Genena will face military trial after saying a presidential candidate he supported had documents damning to state officials, his lawyer said on Thursday. He will stand trial on April 16 [ More … ]
Three Palestinian security guards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem were assaulted and detained by Israeli police on Wednesday, as hundreds of right-wing Israelis and settlers took to [ More … ]
As some 1,500 Palestinian prisoners entered the 11th day of the mass “Freedom and Dignity” hunger strike, Israeli Prison Service (IPS) forces on Thursday attacked two hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners being held in southern Israel’s Ashkelon [ More … ]
An Israeli police officer physically assaulted and injured several Palestinians in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Wadi Joz on Thursday morning, a video filmed by an eye witness showed. The video shows a plainclothes [ More … ]
In the wake of a large-scale raid Sunday night in occupied East Jerusalem that targeted the families of Palestinians who were either slain or incarcerated after carrying out or allegedly carrying out attacks, one of [ More … ]
Lawyer Mohamed Hanafi, who is defending Ahmed Abdallah – the board chairman of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedom (ECRF) and the legal adviser of the family of Jiulio Regeni, who was murdered and [ More … ]
A new accident against Christian citizens in al-Minya province. Bishop Macarious of the southern Minya governorate says the mob attacked the families of two priests with knives and batons in the village of Tahna al-Gabal [ More … ]
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