Photos have emerged showing a man shot dead in what appears to be an extrajudicial killing by Egyptian authorities, casting doubt on Egypt’s claim that it executed “terrorists” following Friday’s deadly attack. The photos – [ More … ]
The nightmare of enforced disappearance in Egypt is escalating in an unprecedented way. The phenomena have reached serious levels recently.In a report by the Intercept tilted:”Mysterious Deaths and Enforced Disappearances: This is Egypt’s US-backed War [ More … ]
Over the past year, hundreds of Egyptian citizens have reportedly been forcibly disappeared, victims of Egypt’s U.S.-backed war on terror. Some of those have then been pronounced dead in a later counterterrorism operation, with the [ More … ]
Supporting Egypt’s particular brand of fighting terrorism is equivalent to supporting a climate of expedited radicalization, says Open Democracy. Open Democracy has published an article titled: “The Egyptian Army’s Violent Trail on breadcrumbs” pointing that [ More … ]
Although Egypt’s military dictator Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was warmly welcomed by U.S. President Donald Trump early this month, however, experts in Washington think over the matter in a different way. During his meeting with al-Sisi in [ More … ]
Egypt’s Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar issued instructions for secret police to be deployed in Egypt’s streets and public squares to monitor and curtail any instances of criminal intent as Egypt is already under a [ More … ]
Mekameleen TV, an Egyptian opposition news channel, has broadcast on Thursday night a video which allegedly shows Egyptian soldiers executing unarmed detainees in the Sinai region. The opposition channel, which broadcast the footage, said that the [ More … ]
Human Rights Watch’s report on extrajudicial killings in Sinai stated that “security forces may have extrajudicially executed at least four and perhaps as many as 10 men in January 2017. They may have arbitrarily detained [ More … ]
A group from Al-Arish residents, in Northern Sinai governorate, have announced beginning partial civil disobedience next Thursday (on February 11), in protest against the extrajudicial killing of 10 youths by security forces. This month, Egypt’s Interior Ministry [ More … ]
Egypt’s army spokesman said Saturday on his Facebook’s official page that two army officers and two soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb during a security operation in northern and central Sinai that killed 20 [ More … ]
Egypt’s parliament extended the state of emergency in North Sinai for three coming months starting 30 January. The majority in Egypt’s parliament voted in favor of the extension. In October 2014, the state of emergency was imposed for [ More … ]
Israel has announced that it has finished raising the height of an electronic fence along part of its border with Egypt to shut down irregular migration routes. The 242-kilometer (250 mile) barrier, stretching from the Gaza Strip [ More … ]
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