The Batel (Void) Campaign has called, in a statement, on all Egyptians at home and abroad to demonstrate on the ninth anniversary of the January 25 revolution The popular campaign called on Egyptians to take [ More … ]
Mustafa Kassem, American citizen who had been held in Egyptian prison for past five years, died on Monday after series of hunger strikes Two US Senators called on President Donald Trump to “immediately” sanction Egypt [ More … ]
Moustafa Kassem, detained in Cairo in 2013 and suffering from serious medical problems, had protested his innocence. An American imprisoned in Egypt for six years on what he insisted were false charges, and whose case [ More … ]
The friends and family of prisoners in Egypt have launched a social media campaign to raise awareness of the dire conditions inside Egypt’s prisons, according to MEMO Under a number of hashtags including the Arabic for [ More … ]
Detainees of the Scorpion Prison continue to be subjected to one of the most brutal ways of slow death, where the prison authority deprives them of their basic rights and exposes them to torture and [ More … ]
Egypt has blamed Ethiopia for the failure of the latest round of talks on the construction of a controversial Nile dam, a critical issue for Cairo as it seeks to protect its main source of [ More … ]
Against the backdrop of the death of a detainee in the Scorpion Prison, south of Cairo, families of the notorious prison detainees are calling for an urgent investigation into what they considered a “horrific murder”. [ More … ]
The Egyptian National Action Group has condemned what it called “the coup regime’s attempt to plunge the Egyptian army into the ongoing battles in Libya, with the complicity of some army commanders against the general [ More … ]
US stops sending sniffer dogs to Egypt, Jordan after seven died of ‘negligence’ Several of the animals died in Egypt and Jordan due to lack of care, says US State Department The United States announced [ 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 … ]
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 … ]
An expanding network of enterprises owned by the armed forces blocks much-needed reforms, says Timothy Kaldas in a recent report published in Bloomberg. “As Egypt marks the third anniversary of its bailout by the International [ More … ]
Aisha al-Shater has been held in dire conditions in prison since her arrest last year, according to rights groups Aisha Shater, an Egyptian activist and daughter of senior Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat al-Shater, could die in prison [ More … ]
Washington may impose sanctions on Egypt under a US law that targets purchases of military equipment from Russia. According to Reuters, The United States could impose sanctions on Egypt and block it from future military sales if [ More … ]
Egypt has faced strong criticism at a United Nations review of its rights record, with diplomats voicing alarm over detention conditions and shrinking freedoms in the country recently rocked by mass protests. The United States and other Western [ More … ]
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