The Zagazig Criminal Court sentenced Moataz Matar and Hossam El-Shorbagy, presenters of Al-Sharq and Mekameleen channels respectively, to 15 years in prison each, on charges of court contempt, and others. Egypt’s Zagazig Criminal Court in [ More … ]
Last September, HRW found in an extensive report that Egyptian Interior Ministry forces have killed dozens, perhaps hundreds, of secretly held dissidents in extrajudicial executions in recent years, said Amr Magdi, HRW researcher, Middle East [ More … ]
An Egyptian military court on Wednesday upheld life sentences for 32 people accused of plotting to kill Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and a former Saudi crown prince, the defendants’ lawyer said. Egyptian military’s high appeals court [ More … ]
Egypt has ranked fifth worldwide in underreporting coronavirus and first in the Middle East, according to a report recently published by the World Bank, citing a research paper. According to the World Bank report, Egypt’s [ More … ]
The first day of the new school year (2021-2022) in Egypt, on Sunday, witnessed a severe classroom over-crowdedness in most public schools; and even some classrooms had no seats, where pupils were prompted to sit [ More … ]
Lawyers of Ziad El-Elaimy, a former parliamentarian, and journalists Hisham Fouad and Hossam Moanis have finally been able to present their defense on Oct. 6, but the trial was adjourned to Oct. 20, according to [ More … ]
The Egyptian authorities on 6 October 2021 renewed the pre-trial detention of Ola Al-Qaradawi for a period of 45 days. The daughter of prominent Islamic scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi has already been detained for four [ More … ]
The head of Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court has sent a message to human rights advocates to stay silent. “Stay silent, it is better for you. Egypt is a leading nation in respecting human rights,” Counsellor [ More … ]
Egypt, which has one of the most alarming levels of pollution in the Middle East, is in urgent need to preserve its green spaces. Instead, government bodies are almost systematically razing Cairo’s green lung under [ More … ]
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan discussed securing “tangible and lasting improvements” in human rights with Egypt’s Sisi and other top officials during a visit to Cairo on Wednesday, a senior U.S. official said, according [ More … ]
The Sisi government prevents civil servants from resorting to judiciary against it, otherwise they would face punitive measures. The Egyptian Cabinet has decided to prevent government employees from filing lawsuits against the government, or submitting [ 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 … ]
Kuwait has announced that the country’s labor market has lost 199,000 non-Kuwaiti workers, mostly from the Egyptian and Indian nationalities, covering 15 different activities, which is the largest number in the history of the country. [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities are abusing counter-terrorism laws to arbitrarily detain a leading businessman and his son in conditions that amount to torture in reprisal for their refusal to hand over company assets, Amnesty International said yesterday. [ More … ]
Ethiopian Embassy in Cairo will close starting in October, says Ethiopian ambassador to Cairo. Does the decision have anything to do with the Renaissance Dam crisis? The Ethiopian Ambassador to Egypt Markos Tekle Rike told [ More … ]
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