The United Arab Emirates (UAE) said on Sunday (Feb 18) it had signed military deals worth 3.87 billion UAE dirhams ($1.1 billion) with international companies. A spokesman for the IDEX defense conference said the UAE [ More … ]
The Egyptian government canceled a contract with a top US lobbying firm days after the American broadcaster CBS grilled Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi about his human rights record, a report has revealed. According to Al-Monitor, [ More … ]
Egyptians authorities executed 3 political prisoners today.Ahmed Elhendawy. Almoataz Alattar. Abdelhamid Metwally. Their families were supposed to visit them in prison today but the prison authorities told them they won’t see them because they are [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities have detained at least seven left-wing and secular activists in the second wave of arrests targeting leftist groups since last summer. The crackdown has coincided with the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron, [ More … ]
Three years after the disappearance, torture and murder of Italian doctoral student Giulio Regeni in Cairo, Egypt is stonewalling Italy’s efforts to investigate. In November, Italian prosecutors officially named five members of Egypt’s security services as [ More … ]
House Democrats sharply rebuked Egypt over its human rights record last Thursday, putting Cairo on a path to lose $300 million in military assistance this year. As part of a spending package for the rest [ More … ]
The EU’s lawmaking body has condemned Egyptian authorities for human rights abuses and is urging them to lift restrictions on free speech and assembly, halt mass trials and stop sentencing minors to death, and release [ More … ]
The Egyptian and French navies conducted an exercise at the Red Sea base, with the French vessel, Courbet, taking part. A group of Egyptian and French vessels participated in an extensive training aiming to boost [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Egypt on Monday, the third leg of his first trip abroad since the murder of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey last month. Despite the [ More … ]
Egypt has created a new high-powered human rights watchdog agency, but its primary mission isn’t to protect Egyptians from violations. Instead, the body is foremost aimed at protecting the government from allegations of rights abuses [ More … ]
Aid group Save the Children analysed UN data and found tens of thousands of kids under 5 perished from severe hunger. As many as 85,000 children in Yemen starved to death in the past three [ More … ]
Sudanese opposition activist Mohamed Boshi, who had been living in Egypt, was abducted and returned to Sudan in an operation coordinated by the security services of both countries. A Sudanese opposition activist who had been [ More … ]
Washington Post and AP report US intelligence officials concluded Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing of Jamal Khashoggi The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, US [ More … ]
The Egyptian authorities on Thursday detained nine people, including seven women, according to sources close to the banned Muslim Brotherhood group. Several Brotherhood sources told Anadolu Agency that the nine had been detained from their [ More … ]
The disappearance and death of journalist and Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi has thrust Saudi Arabia back into a global spotlight that centers directly on the Kingdom’s troubled human-rights record. And because Khashoggi once enjoyed a [ More … ]
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